A  G#m  F#m

[Verse 1]
A          F#m                  E       D
   Takes a dried up ball-point,   lemon juice and water
A          F#m     E         D
   keeps a diary invisibly,
A         F#m            E      D                 A
   In the kitchen corner   of a basement bachelor suite
          F#m                E              D
there's a certain search for certainty, you know we'll never see
          E         A         G#/A    F#m    E        D
her hands touch her childhood home in photos that she took.
         E     A       G#/A   F#m         E       D
It's one more omission from a high school history book;
          E         A          G#/A    F#m      A    G#/A  F#m    (A)
how whole lives get knifed and pushed aside. To whom it    may concern...


[Chorus 1]
    A       F#m    E                                 D
(to whom it may concern) There's a bus thats leaving half an hour from now.
 A       F#m  E                                 D
(this is to inform) It won't take her where she really wants to go.
 A        F#m    E                                 D
(yours sincerely yours) So she sits there with her luggage at her side.
 A        F#m    E                            D
(yours sincerely yours) in the empty stations of our empty lives.


[Verse 2]
A         F#m            E        D
   Take a broken bottle.   Take a rafter beam.
A         F#m          E               D
   Take a needle and a tarnished spoon.
A          F#m                E           D
   Or just words to kill off     one more unheard statement
A       F#m          E              D
    of another dying afternoon. She says she's leaving soon.
      E       A        G#/A       F#m    E    D
So so long to ten hour shifts and faking sympathies.
    E       A        G#/A     F#m    E   D
Farewell to piles of bills, unpayed utilities.
           E      A        G#/A   F#m        A      G#/A      F#m     A    G#/A  F#m    (A)
All rolled up and unfurled like a flag. Wake up and pack your bag. To whom it    may concern...


[Chorus 2]
    A       F#m    E                                  D
(to whom it may concern) There's a bus that's leaving half an hour from now.
 A       F#m  E                                 D
(this is to inform) It won't take her where she really wants to go.
 A        F#m    E                                 D
(yours sincerely yours) So she sits there with her luggage at her side.
 A        F#m    E                              D
(yours sincerely yours) leaving empty stations, leaving empty lives.


[Outro]
   A       F#m    E     D
To whom it may concern
A       F#m  E     D
This is to inform
A        F#m    E      D
Yours sincerley yours
A        F#m    E      D     A
Yours sincerley yours