Intro:
   F Am C
   F Am C

Verse:
 F                      Am              C
 Well I ain’t written a love song in so long as your hair leads down your spine
F             Am                    C
 But I don't mind a few lines tonight, I'll regret it for the rest of time
F                       Am                 C
 Let your hips and your lips and your fingertips slip against the city streets
 F                          Am                      C
 Seeping in again, sleeping in while my friends get high on the edge of Westside Highway

Interlude: F Am C

Verse:
F                     Am              C
 Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay?
                                      F
 The day that you told me to quit drinking
                   Am                      C
 And thinkin' that I's gonna die before thirty, your mom was so worried about
           F                         Am
 All those kids in the house tearing picture frames down
          C
 Our fathers were never around when we were younger

Interlude: F Am C

Chorus:
(nc)       F
 So let me go I saw you on the river's edge
C
 Dragging on a plastic cigarette
G                           Am
 With your swim top still wet
           F                               C
 So let it go, meetin' you out on the coast
                            G
 You hate the smell of real smoke
                                Am
 So why'd you always keep it so close?

Interlude: F C G Am

Verse:
 F                   Am                C
 You were collecting shells out on the bayshore you know I was a shell before
 F                     Am                    C
 Deep in the hands of another my brother had told me to leave, but I didn't believe
 F                     Am                     C
 The evil beneath some people you meet out in Queens

Verse:
F              Am                C
 The way the rain came down the other day in Byron Bay
          F                Am                    C
 Made me feel so alone, so I just went home, and scribbled some poem that I know you'll never read

Interlude: F Am C

Chorus:
(nc)       F
 So let it go I saw you on the river's edge
C
 Dragging on a plastic cigarettes
G                           Am
 With your swim top still wet
           F                               C
 So let me go,  meeting you out on the coast
                                G
 You hate the smell of real smoke
                             Am
 Why'd you always keep it so close?

Interlude:
   F C G Am
   F C G Am

Outro:
        F
 Let it go I saw you on the river's edge
C
 Dragging on a plastic cigarette
G
 With your swim top still wet
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