Key: G
Intro: lC G lD Em l
C G D Em
You were in college working part time waiting tables
C G D
Left a small town, never looked back
C G D Em
I was a flight risk with a fear of fallin’
C G D
Wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts
C G D C G D C G
I say "Can you believe it? As we’re lying on the couch?"
D C G D
The moment I can see it Yes, yes, I can see it now
C G
* Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water?
D Em D
You put your arm around me for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
D Em D C
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
C G D Em
Flash forward and we’re taking on the world together
C G D
And there’s a drawer of my things at your place
C G D Em
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I’m guarded
C G D
You say we’ll never make my parents’ mistakes
C G D C G D C G
But we got bills to pay We got nothing figured out
D C G D
When it was hard to take, Yes, yes, this is what I thought about *
C G
Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
D Em D
You saw me start to believe for the first time
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
D Em D C G D C G D
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
Em C
And I remember that fight Two-thirty AM
D D
As everything was slipping right out of our hands
Em C D
I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street
C G D
Braced myself for the "Goodbye."
C G D
‘Cause that’s all I’ve ever known
C G D
Then you took me by surprise
C G D C
You said, "I’ll never leave you alone"
C G
You said, "I remember how we felt sitting by the water
D Em D
And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time
C G
I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter
D Em D
She is the best thing that’s ever been mine."
C G D Em D
Hold on, make it last Hold on, never turn back
C G
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
D Em D
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine
C G D Em C G D
(Hold on) do you believe it? (Hold on) we're gonna make it now
C G D Em C G D
(Hold on) and I can see it, (Yes, yes) I can see it now
