C          F       Am         G
There were lovely red flowers lining the trees
          C               F          Am        G
And they smelled like perfume on the hand of a queen
     C              F              Am       G
The car read “Just Married” on the back window
     C         F      Am           G        C      F  Am  G
The future was open, how could we ever have known?
      C          F       Am         G
From South San Diego, to Portland, Maine
        C              F      Am         G
I have traveled this country seeking my fame
            C             F         Am              G
And through all the what fors, the flames and trap doors
              C          F    Am           G         F
Through which all of us fell, stories that I cannot tell
      Fm             Fm
And I wish that I...

 C  F  Am  G x2

[Verse 2]
         C            F     Am          G
Now the ocean tide’s coming up with the moon
        C             F        Am        G
I’m afraid we’re all living at sea level too
          C            F           Am       G
And we’re seeing this part of the tragedy through
         C         F           Am           G           C      F  Am  G
When the bottle will break, the cradle will fall down on you
      C          F            Am       G
The second rate author of his own epitaph
          C         F          Am           G
All this potent potential destroyed in the graph
     C                F          Am       G
You think to yourself, I’ll get lucky at cards
         C         F            Am             G         F
But you don’t even know who the hell that you are, and I
        Fm                            C       F  Am  G
Still I wish that I...was born in the spring

[Bridge]
Am                G
Son of a, son of, son of a bitch
           D                                F
‘Cause the daughters are damned, that’s the way that it is
Am                    G
Nothing much changes out in the sun
         D                           F              F
When the wine that you drink is the wine you become

[Verse 3]
           C            F        Am          G
Or you say maybe this time I can dig out of this
        C         F           Am            G
So the family relents and you get yourself pissed
      C            F       Am          G
And suddenly everyone has got some advice
     C             F           Am           G
You sell their suggestions without thinking twice
       C              F          Am                G
The friends that I’ve had and the friends that I’ve made
     C                 F              Am          G
The friends that I’ve lost through my hapless mistakes
     C        F          Am          G
And isn’t it all just a slap in the face
      C         F           Am           G           F
That no single person could take up the place of her
       Fm                            C       F  Am
And I wish that I...was born in the spring
G            C     F Am G
Born in the spring
        C          F           Am            G
‘Cause everyone’s gone, we all die don’t you know
         C       F          Am        G
Are you so disappointed it all was a show
         C              F          Am          G
And the first love you had was the only thing real
          C            F            Am           G          F
And what brought it together in the end was the kill and I
        Fm                            C       F  Am  G
Still I wish that I...was born in the spring