Oh How We Drift Away

F C G D Last time I saw him we weren’t really talking F C G D He said “Hey, how’re you living? How’s life been treating you?” F C G D Was at the Good Luck Bar before they closed down F Eb D About a month before I left town E Am C Oh, how we drift away from our friends G D And the ones back home they remember when E Am C You can take me out of your phone D D7 G If you come knocking I won’t be home F C G D 2x F C G D Finally met for lunch after weeks of pushing F C G D And the kitchen had dried out just as we were getting drinks F C G D Settled in on gossip and restaurants and nonsense F Eb D And I wish I was as clever as they think E Am C Oh, how we drift away from our friends G D And the ones back home they remember when E Am C You can take me out of your phone D D7 If you come knocking I won’t be F C G D Home 4x F C G D Twenty thousand years ago, can you even imagine F C G D In the Chauvet caves women painting on the wall F C G D Pictures of their memories, pictures of their stories F C G D Pictures of their love affairs, pictures of their worries F Eb D I wonder if they ever dreamt of us at all Gm At all E Am C Oh, we stand on their bones and walk on their souls G D And the children who lived grew into women and men C D G And painted over their mothers’ work again and again F C G D Again and again F C G Again and again F C G D Oh F C G D How we drift away F C G D Oh, how we drift F C G D Away F C G D Oh, how we drift F C G D Away F C G D Ooooh F C G D Oh, how we drift F