Timeless X Better Man

Intro C  G  Am  G  Fmaj7 



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 
       Fmaj7 
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 
Fmaj7 
 The kind you don't put down 
 G                 Am                 Fmaj7 
 And that's when I called you and it's so hard to explain 
    G              Am                Fmaj7 
 But in those photos, I saw us instead 
G                Am                Fmaj7 
 And, somehow, I know that you and I would've found each other 
G                     Am                Fmaj7              G 
 In another life, you still would've turned my head even if we'd met 


    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 
                    Fmaj7 
 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 
                    Fmaj7 
 We would have been timeless 
       C              G                Fmaj7 
'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  Fmaj7 ) 



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

 Than lovin' a man who 
Fmaj7 
 Didn't know what he had when he had it 
C 
 And I see 
                          G 
 The permanent damage you did to me 
                     Fmaj7 
 Never again, I just wish I could forget when it was magic 
                  Fmaj7(9) 
 I wish it wasn't four AM, standing in the mirror 
        G 
 Saying to myself: You know you had to do it 
   Fmaj7(9) 
 I know the bravest thing I ever did was run 



C 
 Sometimes, in the middle of the night 
       G 
 I can feel you again 
            Am 
 But I just miss you 
            G               Fmaj7 
 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               Fmaj7 
 And I just wish you were a better man 
          C  G 
 A better man 
        Am  G  Fmaj7 
 A better man 



G            Am         Fmaj7 
 Time breaks down your mind and body 
G           Am               Fmaj7 
 Don't you let it touch your soul 
                G       Am 
 It was like an age-old classic 
     Fmaj7 
 The first time that you saw me 
     G             Am             Fmaj7 
 The story started when you said, "Hello" 

                       C 
 I wish you were a better man 
          G 
 I wonder what we would've become 
                  Fmaj7 
 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 
                  Fmaj7 
 If you were a better man 

 Yeah, yeah 



      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 
             Fmaj7 
 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               Fmaj7 
 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                  Fmaj7 
 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 
             Fmaj7                  C 
 If you would've been... A better man 
G                                        Am       G Fmaj7 
 We might still be in love if you were a better man 

Final 

C 
 Down the block, there's an antique shop 
     G                                               Fmaj7 
 And somethin' in my head said, "Stop" so I walked in