Intro
Csus2 
 
Verse 1
Csus2       Csus2/B          Fsus2 
Children we didn’t have don’t call. 
      Csus2                    Csus2/B      Fsus2 
Their heights aren’t marked in pencil on the wall. 
     Dm7                   Em7 
They don’t ride bikes, cry out at night, 
   Am                E7 
Or fall and graze a knee. 
          Am        G      Fm6 
And their arms will never reach, 
        Csus2    Csus2/B      Csus2  G/C F/C G/C 
For the mother I never got to be. 
 
Verse 2
    Csus2       Csus2/B          Fsus2 
The children we didn’t have press in, 
  Csus2           Csus2/B      Fsus2 
Remind me that we couldn’t just begin. 
        Dm7                  Em7 
They’d laugh on swings, and whisper things 
    Am              E7 
I’m not suppose to know. 
         Am     G      Fm6 
And they never stop to see, 
        Csus2    Csus2/B         Csus2 
The mother that never was, that’s me. 
 
Bridge
            Fadd2               Cadd2 
Think about all the children we didn’t have, 
              Dm7           Cadd2 
Picture them playing in the light. 
              Em 
Think of them deep in thought, 
                F                 Fm 
Think of their face when they’re caught, 
       A#       Fsus2 Gsus4 G 
Doing something naughty. 
 
                  Dm7 
Now picture them three or four, 
              Em7 
Picture them walking out the door. 
              G#maj7 
Think of them twenty or thirty or forty, 
         Csus2 
Or maybe fifteen. 
                      Fadd2 
I think you know who I mean. 
 
Verse 3
     Am7         G               F 
The daughter we didn’t have moved in, 
Am7              G             F 
Smart and sad, uneasy in her skin. 
Dm7              Em7 
Far too young to lose a mom, 
    Am                   E7 
Or take the path she’s travelling on. 
            Am     G      Fm6 
If I could whisper in her ear, 
              Csus2      Fadd2 
I’d tell the daughter we didn’t have, 
    Cadd2 
I’m here.