F
There's a kid I used to know
                           Bb
His heart exploded one day after school
                     F
When we were walking home
F
My mother told me son
F
That boys heart was so full up with love that
   Bb                                F
It just gave out there wasn't enough room
                       Dm       F
But I heard he wrote a love song
Gm                  Dm
For a girl he never met
Dm                     F
How stupid can one kid get?
F      
It was soft and sweet
Gm                             Dm
Miserable but pleasantly upbeat
Dm                 F
And this is how it went:

[Chorus]
F        Gm                                Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D                    C                            F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
               Gm
And I can't convey
                       Dm
That we just seem to betray
   D                  C        F                        Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
Bb           C                                   F
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever be

[Verse 2]
Dm                        F
It was Sunday after church
            Dm             Bb
The funeral masses crowded out the door
               Bbm   F
And spilled onto the curb
Bb                      Bbm
The mothers wiped their tears
F                   Dm
And held their sons tightly near em
     Bb                                F
Said little one don't you ever fall in love
                                        Gm
But its not the fear of telling her the truth
                                D
About the things that he would do
                              F
To make her his that led this whole thing to ensue
                                       Gm
It's just the pain of seeking her each day
                           D
The way it's gonna end the same
                           F
How many times you let the right girl get away

[Chorus]
F        Gm                                Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D                    C                            F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
                  Gm
And I can't convey
                     Dm
That we just seem to betray
   D                  C               F                 Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
             C
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever

Gm  Bb  F

C   Bb  C  Bb

Gm  Bb  F

C   Bb  C  Bb

[Chorus]
F        Gm                                D
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D                    C                        F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
             Gm
And I can't convey
                     Dm
That we just seem to betray
D                     C                                F
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
F        Gm                                Dm
Alison I know this world is killing one of us
D              C                              F
But that could never change the way you smile Whoa
            Gm
And I can't convey
                     Dm
That we just seem to betray
D                     C               F               Bb
The way I feel when I see your pretty face from far away
             C                                   Bb
Knowing that that's the closest that will ever be