G                    Em
You left for camp, you left for school
Am/C                             D
Left for the coast when that was cool then
G               Em
You left women, one a wife
Am/C                         D
To save your skin you wrecked a life and
Am                 C
then there's kids its not just one
G                           D
life that you wreck you're on the run
Am              C
You go to town to start anew
G               D
those you left come after you

G                    Em
Its what you think its how you feel
C                     D
though who can say if its all real
G                  Em
The darndest thing kids grow up
Am/C                       D
One day some strange adults show up
G                     Em
The ones you left are right in town
Am/C                    D
that’s nice you say they'll be around
Am              C
perhaps they just a bit bereft but
G                       D
they'll forgive the one who left
Am                   C
sad stories can have happy ends
G                       D
perhaps now you can just be friends
G                     Em
Its what you want its how you feel
Am/C                      D
whats more you hope your theory's real
(Break)
F                          C
Who would have thought or could believe
G                       D
Things go so badly when you leave
F                      C
the skin you saved is growing slack and
G                     D
those you left don't want you back

(Instrumental)
G                    Em
Your power's gone it was pro tem
Am/C                     D
The wife you left meant more to them
G                      Em
Its not just that they side with her
Am/C                  D
you left and who knew where you were
Am              C
The reason that they came to town
G                     D
was just to make that place their own
Am                 C
You realised your greatest fear
G                    D
you are so close but hardly here
G                          Em
It's what you think   it's how you feel
Am/C            D
and what's worse is you know its real