Intro: Em A D (x2)
verse 1
D G D
Back then I was changing like the weather,
D Em G D
Back when I let you kiss my lips and I let you see my tears
D G D
I sat down to write you this letter
D Em G D
Cause maybe you've been cryin' baby and I'm nowhere near
G D Em D
I went down to the south to escape the crowd
G D Em A D
They all talk so loud, saying nothing at all
Em A D x2
verse 2
D G D
The fever of youth it keeps the mind so clean
D Em G D
We get hungry, we get reckless, we get drunk on our thoughts
D G D
We see right and wrong and nothing in between
D Em G D
We borrow to buy what can never be bought
G D Em D
I went down to the south to escape the crowd
G D Em A D Em A D
They all talk so loud, saying nothing at all, saying nothing at all.
Bridge
Em A Em A
And a wildflower dies like a rose in a glass
Em A Em A
But one bends back to earth and one's thrown in the trash
Em A D x4
verse 3
D G D
I wrote you this letter I'm just tryin' to say
D Em G D
Once you said someday you might need me
D G D
Well if someday ever happened to be today
D Em G D
Just come on down here darling and see me
G D Em D
I went down to the south to escape the crowd
G D Em A D
They all talk too loud, saying nothing at all
Em A D