Intro C Verse 1 F C Before it took you away Am F C I tried to think of something I could say F C I watched the shadows in the hall Am F C How they danced with the light and the white on the walls Pre-Chorus 1 C F C F Your face in these pictures looks like a poem C F C F Your eyes lit up like a river stone C F C F Your body so much like a blanket thrown Am C F Fmaj7 On a warm bed at night, like a house in a storm Instrumental C Chorus F C Then you walk right through the doorway Am F C You tell me you're here to stay F C The worst is gone and by God how long Am F C Have you been here this way Instrumental C Verse 2 F C I surprise myself sometimes Am F C The way the days unfold and this road unwinds F C You tell me you see it too Am F C And the miles seem like inches when I think of you Pre-Chorus 2 C F C F Its been 25 day since I've been gone C F C F 25 weeks since I've seen my home C F C F I spent 25 months chasing this song Am F Fmaj7 and all of this time I've been alone Instrumental C Chorus F C Then you walk right through the doorway Am F C You tell me you're here to stay F C The worst is gone and by God how long Am F C Have you been here this way Instrumental C Middle 8 Am F C And you knew it all along Am F C I wasn't happy all along Am F C And your body all I wanted Am F C Led me to just come home Instrumental C Chorus F C Then you walk right through the doorway Am F C You tell me you're here to stay F C The worst is gone and by God how long Am F C Have you been here this way Outro Am F C And I only just learned how to stand like a man Am F C I've got 25 years of running instead Am F C How could I see the ground at my feet Am C F The truth is to me that I was caught in the storm C That I wasn't alone
