People We Were Once

C C F C C C C G Am C F C I guess that once I wore my heart around my neck and let it hang C C G Am Anybody who got close enough could rip it off its chain C F C There I am smiling up from photographs ‘cause how could I have known C C G Am That anybody’d care enough to take it for their own F C And all I know is I knew nothing then F G Yeah, I was just pretending that my footing was solid and secure F C All I know is that the people we were once F G They thought they were the ones to bypass breakdown, they were happy I am sure C But they are gone F C Oh-oh-oh they are gone F C Oh-oh-oh Dm F But I can’t give up on trying to reach them once again Dm F Think that I could see the world from the horizon where they stand G F Keep on mailing letters, but they’re all “return to sender” G Can’t remember how it felt to be in love Am F ‘Cause everything went wrong C F C Now they are gone |C |C |C G |Am C F And the more I learn, the more I know not to believe the words you C said C C G Am But you must have nailed them down because they won’t escape my head C F C And the more I lose, the more I try to step back, reset the score C C G Am But I live like Fibonacci, adding all that’s come before F C What came before is stories I can’t tell F ‘Cause the endings don’t sit well inside my stomach G Hard to swallow, hard to taste F C What came before is people we were once F G People who believed in something more than futures and thought time too short to waste C But they are gone F C Oh-oh-oh they are gone F C Oh-oh-oh Dm F But I can’t give up on trying to reach them once again Dm F Think that I could see the world from the horizon where they stand G F Keep on mailing letters, but they’re all “return to sender” G Can’t remember how it felt to be in love Am F ‘Cause everything went wrong C F C Now they are gone C C C G Am F F C F The people we were once will never be enough to keep me going G F Keep me hoping things will change C F Because the people we were once had no idea that love was more than skin-deep G Hadn’t learned how to be brave C But they are gone F C C Oh-oh-oh they are gone F C Oh-oh-oh Dm F And it’s time to stop my crying, we will never meet again Dm F G I have walked too far from the horizon where they stand to turn around F And to turn back into that girl, I won’t defend her F G Can’t remember how it felt to be in love F G Just remember I am stronger than she was C F C C And she is gone C G Am And I’ve missed her far too long