Jason Isbell – Good While It Lasted (Guitar)

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[Note: Add embellishments such as hammer-ons on the chords) [Intro] Am7 C G Dsus4 x2 [Verse 1]
            Am7         C
You're like sleep, take what I can get

         G               Fsus2             C
But I've gotta make some sense of this, so here the fuck I sit

   Am7            C
At 3 a.m., trying way too hard

   G                 Fsus2          C
To find the words to slow my sweet, addicted heart
[Verse 2]
            Am7                C
You're like sleep, I can't get near enough

         G                 Fsus2             C
And I pretend that I don't need you when I'm out doing stuff

        Am7                 C
Went so deep, a lucky young man's dream

         G                 Fsus2        C
And last time I tried this sober, I was seventeen
[Chorus]
G                 Dsus4               A7sus4
   And all that I needed was all that I had

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted

G                        Dsus4                A7sus4
  You let me kiss you on Broadway in a black Cadillac

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted

G                      Dsus4                          A7sus4
   Last night I didn't sleep at all, I found another empty wall

           G/B     Cadd9
And I couldn't get past it

G                          Dsus4                     A7sus4
  And for a minute in the afternoon, I almost didn't think of you

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted
[Verse 3]
              Am7             C
It's more than real, a plastic universe

      G               Fsus2           C
And I wanna know your secrets, even when it hurts

            Am7                          C
You speak so soft, but there's something dark in there

      G                 Fsus2             C
And I think I'll ask for more than just a love affair

            Am7                       C
You're like sleep, and the nights are adding up

        G                   Fsus2          C
Well, I wish I still smoked cigarettes and acted tough
[Chorus]
G                 Dsus4              A7sus4
   And all that I had was all that I needed

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted

G                       Dsus4                   A7sus4
   With your head on my shoulder, my soldiers retreated

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted

G                          Dsus4                        A7sus4
   A mattress on the palace floor and a light I'd never seen before

            G/B    Cadd9
And I couldn't get past it

G                              Dsus4                             A7sus4
   And for a little while this afternoon, I dreamed that I was in your room

                G/B      Cadd9
And it was good while it lasted
[Bridge]
A7sus4       G/B        Cadd9
Baby, let me learn from you

A7sus4        G/B           Cadd9
How'd you get that shade of blue?

A7sus4         G/B            Cadd9
What's it like from where you stand?

A7sus4      G/B         Cadd9
Let me hold your steady hand
[Chorus]
G                 Dsus4                A7sus4
   And all that I wanted was all that I had

            G/B      Cadd9
It was good while it lasted

G                   Dsus4                  A7sus4
   Now I feel like a boy who got caught being bad

                G/B      Cadd9
And it was good while it lasted

G                           Dsus4                        A7sus4
    That night you came and stayed with me, painted on my memory

         G/B   Cadd9
I'll never get past it

G                  Dsus4                            A7sus4
   I got to hold a piece of you in the evening on the avenue

           G/B       Cadd9
It was good while it lasted
[Outro] Am7 C G Dsus4 x2