Mary Chapin Carpenter – Bitter Ender (Guitar)

Am                     F
Hope is a drug when it comes to love

      C                        G
And I hoped it would never run dry

        Am
Writing covered the wall

          F
There was no time to stall

    C                       G
But still I kept wanting to try

F                         G
Truth is I've always gone down with the ship

Am                         F
I've never known when it's time to quit

                        G     C F
As defiant as well as defender

             G     Am  F  C  G
I'm a bitter ender

Am                  F
Once in a while the universe smiles

         C                           G
Lets you think that you're in on the joke

    Am
The plans that you made

        F
And the life that you craved

         C               G
Now it's all going up in smoke

F                      G
How many signs are you willing to miss

        Am
And the way that you stay

            F
When you're cut to the quick

                              G     C
'Til they call you a repeat offender

F                     G
It makes you a bitter ender

C                          Am
One of these days we could wake up and say

         F
That our eyes are wide open

      G
Brand new and blinking

C                      Am                        F
What if the cure is to give up the allure of the magic

   G
Of magical thinking

Am                   F
Pride is a curse but no pride is worse

    C                          G
And lately that's just what it is

    Am                    F
Whatever we're told, everything gets old

        C                         G
Nothing changes it's the same old shit

F                       G
How many nights are you ready to waste

       Am                      F
On the loneliest fight and the emptiest chase

                                 G     C
For reasons now you can't even remember

     F                       G    C
As defiance burns down to an ember

        F                             G
For the reckless and the fools and pretenders

G
And bitter enders