A Little Life

B 
  I've seen the flame to a spoon 
      G 
  I was twelve years old on the dark side of the moon 
G/E 
  Five grown men inside a toilet booth 
B 
  One man looking through the eyes of his youth 

Bm 
  I've seen the garden of love 
A 
  From the thorns in the bush to the roses above 
E7 
  It was three years later in the bending of trust 
B 
  That my flower withdrew from the thickening mud 

Bm 
  And so I hopped on a plane 
A 
  To a faraway land, yeah, where my family was made 
E7 
  So long to the friends who had beg me to stay 
B 
  This was the path I had to take 

B 
  And then there was love 
B/Bb 
When she'd rest her head when the days got tough 
Em                            B 
Twenty-three years old, but I felt enough 
Esus2/Ab              Gb7sus4 
We were soon becoming us, oh 

B 
And what I'd never seen 
B/Bb 
As the days got old and the nights grew weak 
Em                             B 
She was just enough in the winter heat 
Esus2/Ab              Gb7sus4 
There she was in front of me, 
   B 
was in front of me 

Bm 
And then it came, the day we wed 
G 
A time of joy and a time of regret 
G/E 
The tears were counting up their debt 
B 
To my other side, she'd never met 

Bm 
And we moved forward, but I still know 
A 
The guilt and shame from the night I stole 
E7 
Forever haunts this child in tow 
B 
Will follow me down the long brick road 

B 
A life, a smile, a man's best friend 
B/Bb 
I felt like I'd been saved again 
Em                            B 
Twenty-eight long years, now on the mend 
Esus2/Ab              Gb7sus4 
To a past I thought I'd seen the end 

B 
So we set sail on something new 
B/Bb 
To counter all my darker truths 
Em                            B 
So I tried to give my best to you 
Esus2/Ab              Gb7sus4 
If it's all I'd ever do, 
B 
all I'd ever do 

Bm 
At times I think about the child 
G 
Who held so close to me when all went running wild 
G/E 
He'd hide himself away and refuse to smile 
B 
This was a life in denial, yeah 

Bm 
And so I found an avenue, oh 
A 
Thirty years too long to rid the darkest blues 
E7                                           B 
She stayed on side, to untie any seeming clues 

B 
And so it came our greatest gift 
B/Bb 
He shows me how life truly is 
A 
The darkness fell right off the cliff 
E/B 
What kind of garden of love is this? 
B 
here we stand, well and true 
B/Bb 
He's on the brightest side of the moon 
A6 
The circle rolls right into view 
Gb7sus4 
And I've come to peace 
Gb7sus4/G 
I've come to peace 
B 
With you