Boxes (2016) (video)

 
    D - A - Bm
 
   A - D
1.          I need a family to drive me crazy,
Bm
    call me out when I'm low and lazy.
D
    It won't be perfect, but we'll be fine
Bm                                               Bm       A    G       G    A    D
    cause I've got your back, and you've got mine, you got mine.
 
  D
2.   We'll have tiny boxes for memories,
Bm
    open them up and we'll set them free.
D
    There'll be bad days and some hard times,
Bm                                           Bm      A      G
    but I'll keep your secrets, if you'll keep mine.
 
   D
You are the memory that won't ever lapse
          - Bm
when           twenty five years have suddenly passed.
         G
Wherever you take me, it's clear I will go,
 Bm                                       G                 D
your love's the one love that I need to know !
 Bm                                       G                  D
Your love's the one love that I need to know !
 
   D
3.   Take my picture and then you laugh cause I
Bm
    hate the way I look in photographs.
D
    Keep your memories, but don't leave the past,
Bm                                           Bm  A              G
    I'm looking forward, to the best days we'll have.
 
   D
You are the memory that won't ever lapse
          - Bm
when           twenty five years have suddenly passed.
         G
Wherever you take me, it's clear I will go,
 Bm                                       G                 D
your love's the one love that I need to know !
   D
You are the sun in the desolate sky,
        Bm
your life's in these words and it can't be denied.
         G
Wherever you take me, it's clear I will go,
  Bm                                      G                 D
your love's the one love that I need to know.
   Bm                                      G                 D
Your love's the one love that I need to know.
 
                   - Bm
+  You can          cry away all your complicated memories
           - D
    that       keep you up so many nights.
             Bm
    And, darling, save your apologies
                     G
     cause I know that you're scared,
                                         D                   Bm                D
    but I swear you'll be alright, in your heart you re alright.
 
                      D
4. When the answers escape us, when we start to fade,
         Bm
    remember who loved you and the ones who have stayed.
                        G
     Cause my body will fail, but my soul will go on,
            Bm                               Bm       G           D
    so, don't you get lonely, I'm right where you are.
 
+  repeat last CHORUS
 
 

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Goo Goo dolls)