Finger picking pattern for intro and Verse: 

   A             E           Bm7/A           D 
e|-0-------0-----0-------0-----2-------2-----2-------3-2-0-| 
b|-2---2-------2-0---0-------0-3---3-------3-3---3---------| 
G|-2-----2-------1-----1-------4-----4-------2-----2-------| 
D|-2-------------2-------------4-------------0-------------| 
A|-0-------------2-------------0-------------X-------------| 
E|-X-------------0-------------X-------------X-------------| 


Intro  
(finger pick) 

A E Bm7/A D (x2) 


Verse: 1  
(continue finger picking) 

   A              E                 Bm7/A                D 
To cheat on Maine islands — days of laughter, nights of sighing 

   A            E                   Bm7/A           D 
To love without ceasing — flowering orchards, salty sea-things 

   A           E               Bm7/A           D 
To say without shyness “unreal city, you have killed me” 


(strum) 

[Refrão]

          F#5          E5              Bm7/A          D 
When you walked out on her love was it easy? 

       F#5             E5            Bm7/A          D 
When I left him while sleeping was I dreaming? 


Verse: 2  
(finger pick) 

   A                 E              Bm7/A      D 
We take each night's journey to the hotel in a hurry 

         A            E          Bm7/A                D 
Where we love without worry on a bed that's five days dirty 

       A            E            Bm7/A           D 
And we read without irony from a book my husband bought for me 

(strum) 

[Refrão]

       F#5          E5             Bm7/A          D 
When I fell on the concrete it was lovely 

                  F#5              E5        Bm7/A          D 
Because you could see what's been running so hot in me 

           F#5          E5                Bm7/A       D 
But when I fell on the concrete, you went white as a sheet 

                F#5             E5               Bm7/A                D 
And wished that nothing in this world would ever hurt me. Well, keep wishing 



Verse: 3  
(finger pick or lightly strum) 

               A          E               Bm7/A             D 
Because when I look in my future, I don't see you and don't wish to 

     A                  E             Bm7/A              D 
Idle talk made when I'm lying by your side on some Maine island 

          A            E               Bm7/A          D 
It's too funny to me, honey, so let's drop it 



       F#5             E5                 Bm7/A          D 
If you really want to love me, well, then do it 

       F#5             E5                 Bm7/A         D 
If you really want to love me, well, then do it