[Intro] C  G  Am  G  F7M

[Primera Parte]

C
 Down the block, there's an antique shop
     G
 And something in my head said, "Stop, " so I walked in
Am                 G
 On the counter was a cardboard box
       F7M
And the sign said, "Photos: twenty-five cents each"
C
Black and white, saw a '30s bride
    G
And two lovers laughin' on the porch of their first house
Am                    G
 The kinda love that you only find once in a lifetime
F7M
 The kind you don't put down
 G                 Am                 F7M
 And that's when I called you and it's so hard to explain
    G              Am                F7M
 But in those photos, I saw us instead
G                Am                F7M
 And, somehow, I know that you and I would've found each other
G                     Am                F7M              G
 In another life, you still would've turned my head even if we'd met

[Chorus]

    C
 On a crowded street in 1944
     G
 And you were headed off to fight in the war
Am                       G
 You still would've been mine
                    F7M
 We would have been timeless
            C
 I would've read your love letters every single night
G
 And prayed to God you'd be comin' home all right
Am                     G
 And you would've been fine
                    F7M
 We would have been timeless
       C              G                F7M
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this
                            Am                        G
So, even in a different life, you still would've been mine
                 C
We would've been timeless

( G  Am  G  F7M )

[Segunda Parte]

C
 I know
                         G
 I'm probably better off on my own

 Than lovin' a man who
F7M
 Didn't know what he had when he had it
C
 And I see
                          G
 The permanent damage you did to me
                     F7M
 Never again, I just wish I could forget when it was magic
                  F7M(9)
 I wish it wasn't four AM, standing in the mirror
        G
 Saying to myself: You know you had to do it
   F7M(9)
 I know the bravest thing I ever did was run

[Chorus]

C
 Sometimes, in the middle of the night
       G
 I can feel you again
            Am
 But I just miss you
            G               F7M
 And I just wish you were a better man
       C
 And I know why we had to say goodbye
          G
 Like the back of my hand
            Am
 But I just miss you
            G               F7M
 And I just wish you were a better man
          C  G
 A better man
        Am  G  F7M
 A better man

[Bridge]

G            Am         F7M
 Time breaks down your mind and body
G           Am               F7M
 Don't you let it touch your soul
                G       Am
 It was like an age-old classic
     F7M
 The first time that you saw me
     G             Am             F7M
 The story started when you said, "Hello"

[Ponte - Better Man]

                       C
 I wish you were a better man
          G
 I wonder what we would've become
                  F7M
 If you were a better man
    G
 We might still be in love
                   C
 If you were a better man
     G
 You would've been the one
                  F7M
 If you were a better man

 Yeah, yeah

[Final Chorous]

      C
 In a crowded room a few short years ago
G
 And sometimes there's no proof, you just know
Am                      G
 You're always gonna be mine
             F7M
 We're gonna be

       C
 And I know why we had to say goodbye
          G
 Like the back of my hand
            Am
 But I just miss you
            G               F7M
 And I just wish you were a better man

           C
 I'm gonna love you when our hair is turnin' gray
              G
 We'll have a cardboard box of photos of the life we've made
     Am              G                  F7M
 And you'll say, "Oh my, we really were timeless"
                C         G
 We're gonna be timeless, timeless
Am                       G
 You still would've been mine
             F7M                  C
 If you would've been... A better man
G                                        Am       G F7M
 We might still be in love if you were a better man

[Outro]

C
 Down the block, there's an antique shop
     G                                               F7M
 And somethin' in my head said, "Stop" so I walked in