G Em x2 D C G Em x2 G Em It is a narrowing. It is a shrinking and there’s a danger of overthinking G Em It was everybody getting tired of drinking every night D C There was a little left to believe in, which is how I really knew I should be leaving G Em I should be leaving… now G Em I should be leaving G Em We were clever then. We’d talk forever then, and the night of our invention it would never end G Em It was a parting, and there was sorrow, it was impossible to picture a tomorrow D C It was necessity and it was instinct and the pattern underneath it kept repeating D C kept repeating, kept repeating, which is how I really knew I should be leaving G Em I should be leaving… now G Em I should be leaving Am C G Em Oh and it was everything. Oh and it was just a way to keep from waking up alone G Em Which is why I had to go D C Which is why I should be leaving G Em G Em Which is why I had to go G Em Am I belaboring? Am I delivering? Am I offering you a blanket, and you’re shivering? G Em Is it a play? Without the passion? Is it an endless repetition of an action? D C If there’s a christening, or a crisis, we can get together then and say how nice it is D C Is it torment? Well it depends, which is how I really knew I should be leaving G Em I should be leaving… now G Em I should be leaving Am C G Em Oh and it was everything. Oh and it was just a way to keep from waking up alone G Em Which is why I had to go G Em Which is why I should be leaving G Em G Which is why I had to go which you know
