G                     Gsus
E|-7---x-7-7---x-7-7---x-8-x-8---7-|
B|-8---x-8-8---x-8-8---x-8-x-8---8-|
G|-7---x-7-7---x-7-7---x-7-x-7---7-|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------| x 4

[Verse 1]
          C                      G
I wrote a let - ter on a nothing day
            C                          G
I asked somebo - dy "Could you send my letter away?"
             C                        G             C          G
"You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelo-ope"

[Verse 2]
           C                      G
I said good-bye to someone that I love
              C                       G
It's not just me, I tell you it's the both of us
           C                        G             C               G
And it was hard like coming off the pill that you take to stay happy

[Verse 3]
         C                       G
Someone above has seen me do all right
         C                      G
Someone above is looking with a tender eye
          C                           G            C             G
Upon your face, you may think you're alone but you may think again

[Chorus]
                   C                                G
If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
                      C                                 G
They'd write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
                       Am                       C
On second thoughts I'd rather hang about and be there with my best friend
             Gmaj7  Gsus  Gmaj7  Gsus
If she wants me

[Verse 4]
         C                     G
And far away somebody read the letter
         C                         G
He condescends to read the words I wrote about him
          C                           G        C
And if he smiles, it's no more than a genius deserves
             G       C                 G
For all your curious nerve and your passion

[Verse 5]
          C                         G
I'm going deaf, you're growing melancholy
             C                         G
Things fall apart, I don't know why we bother at all
            C                           G         C            G
But life is good and "It's always worth living at least for a while"

[Chorus]
                   C                                G
If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
                      C                                 G
They'd write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
                       Am                       C
On second thoughts I'd rather hang about and be there with my best friend
             Gmaj7  Gsus  Gmaj7  Gsus
If she wants me

[Solo]
C   G   C   G   C   G C G   
C   G   C   G   C   G C G

[Verse 6]
             C                          G
If you think to yourself "What should I do now?"
            C                          G
Then take a ba - ton, girl, you better run with it
                  C                        G               C        G
Cause there is no point in standing in the past cause it's over and done

[Verse 7]
         C                      G
I took a book and went into the forest
              C                      G
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
          C                       G          C
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home

[Chorus]
                   C                                G
If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
                      C                                 G
They'd write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
                       Am                       C
On second thoughts I'd rather hang about and be there with my best friend
                Gmaj7  Gsus  Gmaj7  Gsus
If she wants me

[Last Chorus]
                   C                                G
If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
                      C                                 G
They'd write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
                       Am                       C
On second thoughts I'd rather hang about and be there with my best friend
                Gmaj7
If she wants me
       Gsus      Gmaj7
If she wants me, yeah
       Gsus      Gmaj7
If she wants me, yeah
       Gsus      Gmaj7
If she wants me, yeah