If Only For Memories

	  		
Pattern I
 
C                               G 
When you were born you were not alone 
                            F 
Nothing was carved into the stone 

Quiet ? but don't forget 
     C                      G                  C 
You heard someone say it won't get better than this 

That was the sound of your father 
 G 
As he held you up to your mother 
F 
No one will ever know 
C                           G                      C 
The love as pure as the one that you felt right then 



C             G                Dm 
They held you up, they held you up 
     C                  G 
And everybody else they fell to the wayside 
C 
This is the stuff of beginning 
G 
The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning 
F                          C                          G 
A million synonyms will never come close to describe the feeling 



F                  C          G 
     Dont ever leave cause if you do dear 
        C                F 
I guarantee that you?ll regret 

The day you did 
                C 
And youll miss all the simple things 
                F 
And youll see everything you ever loved 
       G                  F 
Start fading till there's nothing left but dust 



C        G         F              G               C 
And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be 
             F               G 
And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before 
 C            G               F        G          C 
And I see the things that I pretend that I don't see 
  F                    G 
And I store them in my head, love 
G 
If only for memories 



Same as I 

So now youre young and you feel alone                                                     
             F 
Despite friends, family, and all the good things now surrounding you 
You cant help thinking 
Oh there's gotta be some more to do 
When all the things that you cherish 
Turn into burdens and there is 
No other fantasy 
You know what you gotta do but you don?t know how 

They hold you back 
They hold you down 
And youre gonna feel bad but you know that you gotta get out 
This is your pain your dilemma 
Will you stay in the town that they raised you 
Or will you sail away 
Pull the anchor and go in for the ? one day 

You have to leave 
Cause if you don?t dear 
Youll never see the things you read about in books 
You saw the films and you were hooked 
But everything you want won?t come to you 
And you realize now that you gotta go see this through 


Chorus (2x)