Intro:  2 x D – A – Bm - G   

                 D   
I move on like a sinners prayer   
                      A   
And letting go like a levee breaks   
                 Bm   
Walk away as if I don't care   
                    G   
Learn to shoulder my mistakes   
                           D   
Or built to fade like your favorite song   
                  A   
Get reckless when there's no need   
                     Bm   
Laugh as your stories ramble on   
                      G   
Break my heart, but it won't bleed   
                    Bm   
My only friends are pirates   
                  A   
That's just who I am   
        G           A                  D   
But I'm better as a memory than as your man   

                    D   
Never sure when the truth won't do   
                     A   
And pretty good on a lonely night   
                     Bm   
Or move on the way a storm blows through   
                         G   
And never stay, but then again, I might.   
                        D   
I struggle sometimes to find the words   
               A   
Always sure until I doubt   
                 Bm   
Walk a line until it blurs   
                       G   
Build walls too high to climb out   
                   Bm   
But I'm honest to a fault   
                A   
That's just who I am   
    G           A              D   
I'm better as a memory than as your man   


G                  D   
I see you leaning, you're bound to fall   
A                       D   
I don't want to be that mistake   
 G                     D   
I'm just a dreamer and nothing more   
 G/B                              A   
You should know it before it gets too late   

                          D   
Cause goodbyes are like a roulette wheel   
                            A   
You never know where they're gonna land   
                                   Bm   
First you're spinning, then you're standing still   
               G   
Left holding a losing hand   
                         D   
But one day you're gonna find someone   
                        A   
And right away you'll know it's true   
                  Bm   
That all of your sinking's done   
                           G   
It was just a part of the passing through   
                     Bm                    A   
Right there in that moment you'll finally understand   
           G           A                   Bm      A Bm  
That I was better as a memory than as your man   
G           A                   D             
Better as a memory than as your man   

Fade w/  D – A – Bm - G