Text Message Unsent
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[Intro ]
Am7 G C D
[Verso 1]
Am7 G
Tell me, Reggie, how is it you spell it
C D
When you're in love with something so dead you can smell it?
Am7 G
Like two hearts preserved in maple syrup
C D
And the boy that you love is off dying in Europe
G Am7
Or Asia or something, you forgot to ask
C D
It's been seven long, horrible years since you last
G Am7
Told him you loved him, but not what that meant
C D
It's too much, so it dies in text message unsent
[Refrão]
G Em
You once told me about your happily ever after
C Am7
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
G Em
"I'd be a writr, you'd play your guitar
Am7 D
We'd both have each othr like two summer stars"
Em F#m7
But I was alone when I moved to New York
G Am7
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
Bm C
And all my words seem to be able to do
Am7 D G
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
[Verso 2]
G Am7 G
So you lived out your life how you thought you deserved it
C D
And spent all your nights busy feeling deserted
Am7 G
Tell your girlfriend she means something more than she does
C D
The last key to unlock the boy who never was
G Am7
But you saw him, you swear it, he was there on the corner
C D
Across from the house that now sits like a mourner
G Am7
Empty of everything it ever loved
C D
While torn-up drafts of letters rain down from above
[Refrão]
G Em
I remember when you told me 'bout your happily ever after (Oh, remember)
C Am7
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
G Em
"I'd be a writr, you'd play your guitar
Am7 D
We'd both have each othr like two summer stars"
Em F#m7
But I was alone when I moved to New York
G Am7
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
Bm C
And all my words seem to be able to do
Am7 D G
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
[Ponte]
G Am7 G
And will you be alone when you see him again?
C D
Maybe alone is better than just being friends
Am7 G
Oh, it can't be, there's nothing as cold as this pain
C D
Of a soul too big for one body to contain
G Am7
It's so daunting a task, this holding out hope
C D
Chasing after the Argo in a little rowboat
G Am7
There's so much that you want to be able to say
C D
Before Charybdis pulls you away
[Refrão]
G Em
Can we still have that ending you told me about?
C Am7
Before we got older and filled up with doubt
G Em
'Cause I was holding back tears that night in your car
Am7 D
Now I'd give everything I have just to hear your guitar
Em D
I'd have died to have had you with me in New York
G Am7
'Cause these upstate stars ain't cutting it anymore
Bm Am7
And all the river, the trees, and the streets seem to do
Am D G
Is reflect back to me a picture of you
Outro
G Am C
So what is the story you want them to tell?
G Am C
Will you take off the mask though it wore you so well?
G Em
Will you go down this heartbreak town's tragic hero?
C C G
With me as your sidekick, the lovesick Pierrot?
Outro
G C G Am G
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What is the starting chord?
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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