G              Em         C         G
Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
       C              G
Where summers lasted longer than
     Am             D Dsus4 D
Well longer than we do
     C              G
When nothing really mattered
          Am             Em
Except for me to be with you
       C               Am             G
But in time we all forgot and we all grew


         C             G
Your melody sounds as sweet
         Am               Em
As the first time it was sung
        C                G             D Dsus4 D
With a little bit more character for show
     C                G
And by the time your father's heard
   Am                    Em
Of all the wrong you've done
     C               Am
I'm putting out the lantern
          Am7           G
Find your own way back home



   G              Em
If I'd forgotten how to sing
   C               G
Before I sung this song
    C               G
I'd write it all across this wall
   Am              D Dsus4 D
Before my job is done
         C             G
And I'll even have the courtesy
     Am             Em
Of admitting I was wrong
       C              Am                G
As the final words before I'm dead and gone


C                       G
You've never been so divine
     Am              Em
In accepting your defeat
          C                G            D Dsus4 D
And I've never been more scared to be alone
    C            G              Am           Em
If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep
    C                Am
I'm putting out the lantern
              Am7         G
Find your own way back home