Intro: Bm G D

Verse 1:
Bm                                    G          D
 Half as drunk as I thought I'd be by now, that's good
Bm                           G              D
 I can still see the people around me change shape
Bm                                       G      D
 Speak their minds and pretend they were misunderstood
Bm                        G          D
 Preachin' 'bout sin over lines of cocaine
Bm                               G           D
 Even when you're not here, it becomes about you
Bm                                 G    D
 They all want me to tell 'em your story
Bm                               G          D
 You broke in and stole china from our livin' room
Bm                         G           D
 Kinda makes all the other parts boring
Bm                          G           D
 You stand over half a foot taller than me
Bm                             G          D
 Your marks on the wall of the weight room
Bm                          G             D
 Naive to believe you would come back and see
Bm           G
 If I could finally take you

Chorus:
D                       A            Bm
Oh, well, I'd beat your ass 'til the morning
                   G                D
You know I've been running all this time
A                          Bm
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
            G                    D
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
          A                Bm
'Cause if I never see you again
               G          D
And you can be anything I want
       A                   Bm
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
G                        D
Teaching me how the thing runs

Post-chorus:
     A
Stay gone
Bm                   G
 Won't you stay gone?
     A
Stay gone
Bm       G
Stay gone

Verse 2:
Bm                              G     D
 Tattooed your initials into my right arm
Bm                           G         D
 So I'd see your name when I lift up a drink
Bm                                   G           D
 There ain't nothing else here worth catching up on
Bm                            g       D
 So I hope that it's warm wherever you sleep
Bm                           G         D
 And I've got a feeling that won't go away
Bm                           G              D
 The doctors are calling it "just moving on"
Bm                                  G           D
 I still ball up my fists when they mention your name
Bm                                G                D
 No one gets to talk xxxx but the ones you've xxxx on

Chorus:
      A                         Bm
Well, I'll beat your ass in the morning
                   G                D
You know I've been running all this time
A                          Bm
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
            G                    D
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
          A                Bm
'Cause if I never see you again
             G          D
You could be anything I want
       A                   Bm
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
G                        D
Teaching me how the thing runs

Post-chorus:
     A
Stay gone
Bm         G
 Stay gone
D               A
Won't you stay gone?
Bm       G   D
Stay gone

Chorus:
            A                         Bm
Yeah, well, I'll beat your ass until morning
                   G                D
You know I've been running all this time
A                          Bm
Sprinting my way past your bedroom
            G                    D
Lifting the weight of you off my mind
          A                Bm
'Cause if I never see you again
             G          D
You could be anything I want
       A                   Bm
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
G                        D
Teaching me how the thing runs
       A                   Bm
Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
        G                     D
It can all be the way that it was

Post-chorus:
      A
If you stay gone
Bm     G
 Stay gone
D          A
Won't you stay gone
Bm       G   D
Stay gone