When We Were Close

[Intro]
Bm7/E G D Bm7/E G D Bm7/E G D
Bm7/E G D

[Verse 1]
        Bm7/E              G       D
I got a picture of us back when we were close
          Bm7/E             G       D
Before we had  somebody picking out our clothes
        Bm7/E         G   D
But you always dressed in your Sunday best
     Bm7/E               G       D
Even when we didn't have nowhere to go
        Bm7/E             G      D
I got a picture of us playing in a bar
         Bm7/E           G         D
And your shirt cost more than your guitar
        Bm7/E         G     D
But you played so heavy and you always let me
       Bm7/E              G        D
Sing a couple even though you were the star

[Chorus]
C               G          D
 I was the worse of the two of us
C               G              D
 But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C                      G           D      Am
 You were bound for glory and grown to die
C                     Bm7/E G
 Oh, but why wasn't I?

[Post-Chorus]
D             Bm7/E G D
 Why wasn't I?

[Verse 2]
      Bm7/E               G        D
Saw a picture of you laughing with your child
      Bm7/E              G       D
And I hope she will remember how you smiled
        Bm7/E               D
But she probably wasn't old enough the night somebody sold
you stuff
     Bm7/E           G       D
That left you on the bathroom tiles
      Bm7/E            G      D
Got a picture of you dying in my mind
          Bm7/E                    G       D
With some ghosts you couldn't bear to leave behind
     Bm7/E                    G      D
But I     can hear your voice ring as you snap another
Bstring
        Bm7/E              G      D
And you finish off the set with only five

[Pre-Chorus]
Am
  And for a minute there,
                  C
you're still alive

[Chorus]
C               G          D
 I was the worse of the two of us
C               G              D
 But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C                      G           D      Am
 You were bound for glory and grown to die
C                     Bm7/E G
 Oh, but why wasn't I?

[Post-Chorus]
D             Bm7/E G D
 Why wasn't I?

[Solo]
C G D C G D
C G D Am C

[Chorus]
C                 G          D
 It's not up to me to forgive you
C                             G           D
 For the nights that your love had to live through
C                 G               D         Am
 Now you'll never need to look me in the eye
C C             G          D
   I am the last of the two of us
C                        G             D
 But the Fort Worth Blues isn't through with us
C                      G         D      Am
 You've traveled beyond the Great Divide
C                      Bm7/E G D
 Oh, but why haven't I?

[Outro]
Why haven't I?
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