For Real

C Death took the husband of a neighbor of mine F C On a highway with a drunk at the wheel She told me, "Keep your clean hands off the laundry he left F And don't tell me you know how I feel" Bb Am She had a tape that he'd sent her from a Holiday Inn F C And she never played it much in the day Bb Am But when I heard him say he loved her through the window at night G I just stayed the hell away C There's a hole in the middle of the prettiest life F C So the lawyers and the prophets say Not your father nor your mother F Nor you lover's gonna ever make it go away Bb Am And there's too much darkness in an endless night F D7 To be afraid of the way we feel F Bb Let's be kind to each other Am Not forever but for real C My father never put his parachute on F C In the Pacific back in World War Two He said he'd rather go down in familiar flames F Than get lost in that endless blue Bb Am And some of that blue got into my eyes F C And we never stopped fighting that war Bb Am Until I first understood about endlessness G And I loved him like never before C There's a hole in the middle of the prettiest life F C So the lawyers and the prophets say Not your father nor your mother F Nor you lover's gonna ever make it go away Bb Am And there's too much darkness in an endless night F D7 To be afraid of the way we feel F Bb Let's be kind to each other Am Not forever but for real C It's lucky that my daughter got her mother's nose F C And just a little of her father's eyes And we've got just enough love that when the longing takes me F Well, it takes me by surprise Bb Am And I remember that longing from my highway days F C Though I never could give it a name Bb Am It's lucky I discovered in the nick of time G That the woman and child aren't to blame As Refrain C For the hole in the middle of a pretty good life F C I only face it 'cause it's here to stay Not my father nor my mother nor my daughter nor my lover F Nor the highway made it go away Bb Am And there's too much darkness in an endless night F D7 To be ashamed of the way I feel F Bb I'll be kind to my loved ones Am Not forever but for real As Refrain C Some say that God is a lover F C Some say its an endless void Some say both, some say she's angry F Some say he's just annoyed Bb Am But if God felt a hammer in the palm of his hand F D7 Then God knows the way we feel F And love lasts forever Bb AM Forever and for real F Love lasts forever Bb F