(Nina Gordon)
From the album 'Bleeding Heart Graffiti' by Nina Gordon
Transcription by Phil Gardner
Intro: D-F#m-A-E-G-D-A
Bm E Bm E
This is not a dream, I am not asleep,
A D G A
This is not a game that I'm playing,
Bm E A D
Somewhere in between what's real and how it seems,
G Em A
I find myself forgetting how to speak.
Bm G D A
And it's good to be... alone,
Bm G D A
And it's good to see... what I become,
Bm G D
When you don't want me any more.
Bm E Bm E
Everybody knows how the story goes,
A D G A
Summer fades away and you're leaving,
Bm E A D
Welcome to the world of your former favorite girl,
G Em A
September comes and washes her away.
Bm G D A
And it's good to be... alone,
Bm G D A
And it's good to see... what I become,
Bm G D Bm G D
When you don't want me any more, when you don't want me any more.
D F#m A E
Love dies, everyone lies, you did your best and so did I but,
G D A
Everybody has to give up sometime,
D F#m A E
Young gods, alien gods, star by star, we all must fall, yeah,
G D A
Everybody has to burn out sometime.
Guitar solo: Bm-G-D-A (x2)
D F#m A E
Young gods, alien gods, star by star, we all must fall, yeah,
G D A
Everybody has to burn out sometime.
Bm G D A
And it's good to be... alone,
Bm G D A
And it's good to see... what I become,
Bm G D A
And it's good to be... alone,
Bm G D A
And it's good to see... what I become,
Bm G D Bm G D
When you don't want me any more, when you don't want me any more,
Bm G
And you don't want me.
Outro: D-F#m-A-E-G-D-A
