FG AM G/F repeat twice
FG AM G/F
At first you have to learn how not to listen
FG AM G/F
When she opens up her heart
G AM
You try your best to make it all about you
GFG AM G/F
Thats the easy part
FG AM G/F
Take all your promises and break them
FG AM G/F
Stay out late and come home high
FG
By this time your on you way
AM
It's going to be over any day
FG AM
And if you really try you wont have to wonder why
Chorus:
FCG
Yeah take it from a man who knows
Just how to break a heart
FCG
Listen hard and listen close
I got it down to a art
FCG
Keep on thinkin' she won't leave
You know the writing on the wall
FGFG AM G/F
That's how you'll lose it all yeah yeah yeah
FG AM G/F
Let the walls fall down around you
FG AM G/F
Let the bills and dishes stack up to the sky
FG
Make friends with regret
AM F
try you damnedest to forget
G AM F
But I bet you never will no I swear you never will
Chorus:X2/X3
FCG
Yeah take it from a man who knows
Just how to break a heart
FCG
Listen hard and listen close
I got it down to a art
FCG
Keep on thinkin' she won't leave
You know the writing on the wall
FGFG AM G/F
That's how you'll lose it all yeah yeah yeah
REPEAT Chorus slow the strumming down.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.