Verse 1
 
D                A            G 
If I don't see you before I go 
D                       A 
Remember what you've seen  
                G 
and what you know 
G                         A 
Sunshine, you will be on my  
D            G 
mind eternally 
D                     A 
But you remember you and 
G               D 
 I'll remember me 
 
Chorus
 
D            G F# Em 
I want to be on my own 
D             A    G 
It's a long way home 
D                   A 
I feel like a baby boy 
             G 
Just being born 
 
Verse 2
 
D                          A 
If you find your true love once 
  G 
 again 
D                   A 
Please don't do the same 
                    G 
damn same thing to him 
G                       A 
Even when I was with you, I  
 D            G 
felt so all alone 
  D                       A 
So I'd as soon do without you 
   G           D 
 and be on my own 
 
Chorus
 
D           G  F# Em 
I want to be on my own 
D           A     G 
It's a long way home 
D                     A 
I feel like a baby boy 
            G 
Just being born 
 
Verse 3
 
D                    A 
A captive of your heart, I  
         G 
guess I was 
D 
You gave no reason to stop 
         A      G 
 loving me:just because 
G 
Well, you dragged yourself  
         A               D 
right down, you could not  
          G 
hear a sound 
D 
Just the tapping of your  
A                  G     D 
teardrops on the ground 
 
Chorus
 
D            G  F#  G 
I want to be on my own 
D          A      G 
It's a long way home 
D                     A 
I feel like a baby boy 
             G 
Just being born 
 
Verse 4
 
D         A        G 
Get    outside your shell 
D                        A 
Those things don't make you 
    G 
 well 
D                      A 
You're the broken part of a  
  G             D 
living fairy tale 
 
Chorus
 
D           G  F# Em 
I want to be on my own 
D          A       G 
It's a long way home 
D                  A 
I feel like a baby boy 
              G 
Just being born.