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The Lover After Me
Artist: Savage Garden
Album: Affirmation
Transcribed by: Ginger (fireinsidetheman@hotmail.com)
Format: Chords

intro: G    Bm    C2   Cmaj7/D C6 (x3)

G                          Bm                 C2                 Cmaj7/D C6
here I go again I promised myself I wouldn't think of you today
                G                   Bm
it's been seven months and counting you've moved on
        C2                    Cmaj7/D C6
I still feel exactly the same
               G                       Bm
it's just that everywhere I go all the buildings know your name
    C2                               Cmaj7/D C6  G                           Bm
like photographs and memories of love            steel and granite reminders
                    C2                        C  D
the city calls your name and I can't move on

   Chorus:
    C2                           D
     ever since you've been gone  the lights go out the same
    C                       D
     the only difference is   you call another name
    C                     D
     to your love to your lover now
    C2
     to your love the lover after me

G   Bm   C2   Cmaj7/D C6

G                     Bm                  C2                    Cmaj7/D C6
am I all alone in the universe there's no love on these streets
       G                    Bm                C2              Cmaj7/D C6
I have given mine away to a world that didn't want it anyway
    G                      Bm
so this is my new freedom
           C2                               Cmaj7/D C6
it's funny I don't remember being chained
     G                             Bm
but nothing seems to make sense anymore
            C                         C      D
without you I'm always twenty minutes late

(chorus)

C D                     C      D                         C
    and time goes by so slowly   the nights are cold and lonely
               D                        C 
I shouldn't be holding on but I'm still holding on for you

G   Bm   C2   C D
G   Bm   C2   Cmaj7/D C6

G                          Bm                C
here I go again I promised myself I wouldn't think of you today
        G                         Bm
but I'm standing at your doorway
                     C 
I'm calling out your name because I can't move on

(chorus twice)

G    Bm   C2   Cmaj7/D C6 G