Intro:
(Drums)

  Am       Am       C         G
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1--------1--------1-----3-----0-------------------------------------|
G|--2---2----2---2----0---0-------0-------(x2)----------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|0--------0--------3-----------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------3-----------------------------------------|

Verse:
(First part the guitar plays nothing)
After school, walking home
Fresh dirt under my fingernails and

The guitar starts playing again: (play it quite fast)
  Am       Am       C        C        D        D        D        D
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1--------1--------1--------1--------3--------3--------3--------3----|
G|--2---2----2---2----0---0----0---0----2---2----2---2----2---2----2---2--|
D|------------------------------------0--------0--------0--------0--------|
A|0--------0--------3--------3--------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I can smell hot asphalt
Cars screetch to at halt to let me pass
And I can not remember
What life was like throug photographs
Trying to recreate 
Images life gives us from our past

(Play slower again)
  Am       C         D         D
E|-----------------------------2------------------------------------------|
B|----1--------1---------3-----------3------------------------------------|
G|--2---2----0---0-----2---2-------2--------------------------------------|
D|-------------------0-----------0----------------------------------------|
A|0--------3--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

And sometimes it's a sad song
But I...

  F   C   Am  G
E|1---3---5---3-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|1---5---5---3-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|2---5---5---4--------(x4)-----------------------------------------------|
D|3---5---7---5-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|3---3---7---5-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|1-------5---3-----------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus:

Cannot forget, refuse to regret
So glad i met you ans
Take my breath away, make everyday
Worth all of the pain that i have gone through
And mama, i've been cryin' 'cause things ain't how they used to be
She said:

  F   E
E|1---0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|1---0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|2---1-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|3---2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|3---2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|1---0-------------------------------------------------------------------|

The battles almost won
And we're only several miles from the sun.

Am       Am       C         G
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1--------1--------1-----3-----0--------------------------------------|
G|--2---2----2---2----0---0-------0-------(x2)-----------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|0--------0--------3------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------3------------------------------------------|

Verse:

Walking on down my street
I see people i wont ever meet
Think of her, take a breath 
Feel the beat in the rythm of my steps
And sometimes it's a sad song.
But I:

Play chorus again :)

Bridge:
 Am   C  G6   D
E|0---0---0---3-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|1---1---0---3-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|2---0---0---2------(x2)-------------------------------------------------|
D|2---2---0---0-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|0---3---2---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------3---------------------------------------------------------------|

The rythm of her conversation
The perfection of her creation
The sex the slipped into my coffee
The way she felt when she first saw me

Hate to love and love to hate her
Like a broken record-player
Back and forth and here and gone
and on and on and on and on

Play chorus again and after that just keep going like the intro:

Am       Am       C         G
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1--------1--------1-----3-----0-------------------------------------|
G|--2---2----2---2----0---0-------0---------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|0--------0--------3-----------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------3-----------------------------------------|