| C | G | Am | |
| Sitting | here just | watching you | sleep, |
| F | C | |
| Wish I could | slip inside and | be, |
| F | C | G | |
| In some | technicolour | dream, |
| C | G | Am | |
| But the air's too | thick for one of us to | breathe, |
| F | C | |
| I'm not | fool enough to | think, |
| F | C | G | |
| You couldn't | live life without | me, |
| F | G | C | |
| I didn't come this | far to throw the | towel in, |
| F | G | C | |
| I didn't | fight this hard | to walk away | , |
| Am | E | F | |
| If | I ain't smart en | ough to | say I'm sorry, |
| F | G | C | |
| It's | just because the | words got in the | way, |
| Verso 2 |
| C | G | Am | |
| I rem | ember how | it used to be | , |
| F | C | |
| I was you | and you were me | , |
| F | C | G | |
| We were | more than ju | st the sa | me, |
| C | G | Am | |
| Now these shoes do | n't fit, My skin's too | tight, |
| F | C | |
| When you | want a kiss, I | take a bite, |
| F | C | G | |
| Let your hear | t call up the cops | , read | me my rights, |
| F | G | C | |
| Last night I drank | enough to drown, |
| F | G | C | |
| Raise a t | oast to your goo | d looks and | to my health, |
| Am | E | F | |
| Loo | k, we both know | how much | I've let you down, |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine | don't take your | love to town, |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| Am | E | F | |
| If I've got to | beg, I'll | beg, | just don't walk away |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to town, |
| Verso 3 |
| C | G | Am | |
| You | deserve a | shooter, a s | aint |
| F | C | |
| Someone to | give it to you | straight |
| F | C | G | |
| To find | the soul thro | ught fles | h and bone |
| C | G | Am | |
| My life's a treas | ure, full of sunn | y weather |
| F | C | |
| But it' | s left me feeli | ng cold |
| F | C | G | |
| Now all | you want to do is | take me | home |
| F | G | C | |
| I hated you, the ni | ght you said you | loved me |
| F | G | C | |
| I hate | d you, 'cause I | couldn't lov | e myself |
| Am | E | F | |
| I'm | begging you now | , baby p | lease just hold me |
| F | G | C | |
| I go | t one foot in, on | e foot off the | ground |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| Am | E | F | |
| If I've got to | beg, I'll | beg, | just don't walk away |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to town, |
| Verso 4 |
| C | G | Am | |
| Sitting he | re while you' | re fast asleep |
| F | C | |
| In the bat | hroom by the sin | k |
| F | C | G | |
| Trying t | o write the r | ight word | s down |
| C | G | Am | |
| I turn out | the lights, close | my eyes |
| F | C | |
| There ain' | t no prayers or kiss goodn | ight |
| F | C | G | |
| What I'l | l forget to say to | morrow, | I'll say now |
| F | G | C | |
| Janie | don't you take y | our love to town |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to | town, |
| Am | E | F | |
| If I've got to | beg, I'll | beg, | just don't walk away |
| F | G | C | |
| Jaine don't you | take your | love to town, |