C G Am F
C G Am F
C G Am F
C G Am F

[Verse 1]
                          C         G  Am
If I could write you in a no-vel
        F                               C      G Am F
I'd por-tray you on a farm somewhere in France
                    C         G  Am
I could diagram the sto-ry
        F
I could see that you escape
            C             G         Am       F
I could dis-guise you and drive you to the cape
      C              G                     F
But I nev-er want to tell you why all this hap-pened

[Verse 2]
                        C         G  Am
And if I could send you let-ters
        F
I would sculpt my words with insights
          C          G Am F
From six cen-turies
                        C        G  Am
I could talk of my phil-o-sophy
         F
Watching stars out on the dock
                      C                G          Am       F
I could argue all the fin-er points of Kant, Rous-seau and Locke

[Pre-Chorus]
      C                       G            F
But I nev-er want to fear any-thing that I say
C                          G             F
Nev-er want to stop you or keep you from play
      Am
And I nev-er never never never ever
              G
Want to run a-way
            C
From my own life

[Chorus]
        G                             C
One day    (when there's fairer weather)
        G
One day    (when you feel much better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much clearer)
Am      F
One day soon
N.C.
None of this'll matter

C G Am F
C G Am F

[Verse 3]
                            C         G  Am
So if I brought you painted flow-ers
        F                               C       G  Am F
Could I take you to New Orleans for the sum-mer
                         C                  G  Am
I could read to you from Dickinson
       F
On her bat-tle with herself
                       C
And complain about the heat there
       G        Am     F
And ef-fects it has on health

[Pre-Chorus]
        C
But I'm nev-er gonna tell you
    G          F
How cra-zy you make me
    C                        G             F
I'm nev-er gonna be what you wish you were late-ly
      Am
And I nev-er never never never ever
         G                C
Hope you feel this far

[Chorus]
        G                                C
One day    (when there's fairer weather)
        G
One day    (when you feel much better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much clearer)
Am      F
One day soon
N.C.
None of this'll matter

C G
C G
C G
C G

[Bridge]
C
Sleep-ing on the hammock

And wincing as the rain's beginning
F
Writ-ing off the whole thing

Pretending that I never noticed
C
Drift-ing in the aftermath

Afterwards it changes
        F
All the suf-fixes and subtleties

Binding me to latter statements
C
Said in anger
                     F
Said to strangers
N.C.                           C
Stranger things have happened

[Chorus]
        G                             C
One day    (when there's fairer weather)
        G
One day    (when you feel much better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much clearer)
Am      F
One day soon

[Pre-Chorus]
      C
But I nev-er want to be the one you once re-gretted
      G
And I nev-er want to make you or take you for grant-ed
      C
And I nev-er want to learn it or we might for-get it
      G
And I nev-er never never never ever
                Am
Want to change this

[Chorus]
        Em
One day soon (when it's so much clearer)
Am      F
One day soon

[Outro]
      C
But I nev-er want to be the one you once re-gretted
      G
And I nev-er want to make you or take you for grant-ed
      C
And I nev-er want to learn it or we might for-get it
      G
And I nev-er never never never ever
                Am     C
Want to change this