Intro: Am Em Fmaj7 G (2x)
Verse:
C Em
Don't tell me you don't know what love is
Am Em
When you're old enough to know better
Am Dm
When you find strange hands in your sweater
Em
When your dreamboat
A
Turns out to be a footnote
Dm
I'm a man with a mission
Em G
In two or three editions, and
C Em F G
I'm giving you a longing look
C Em F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
G C
Everyday I write the book
Em F G
Verse:
Am
Chaaa-pter one, we didn't really get along
C Em C
Chapter two, I think I fell in love with you
Am
You said you'd, stand by me in the middle of Chapter three
Dm
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
Em G
Four, five, and six, and
C Em F G
I'm giving you a longing look
C Em F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
G C
Everyday I write the book
Em F G
Verse:
Am
The wa-ay you walk
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C
The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh
Em C
In four or five paragraphs.
Am
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Dm Em G
are captured here in my quotation marks, and
C Em F G
I'm giving you a longing look
C Em F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
G Am (return to intro)
Everyday I write the book
Am Em F G
Oo oooooo Everyday I write the book
Verse:
C Em
Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Am Em
Between a lover and a fighter
Am Dm
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Em
Even in a perfect world
A
Where everyone was equal
Dm
I'd still own the film rights
Em G
And be working on the sequel, and
C Em F G
I'm giving you a longing look
C Em F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
G C
Everyday I write the book
Em F
Everyday, everyday,
G C
Everyday I write the book
Em F
Everyday, everyday,
G Am
Everyday I write the book
Am Em F
End: C Em F G C
