If Only For Memories Chords & Lyrics - Streetlight Manifesto

[Pattern I]
[C]When you were born you were not [G]alone
Nothing was carved into the [F]stone

Quiet [?] but don't forget
You h[C]eard someone say it won[G]'t get better than [C]this

That was the sound of your father
A[G]s he held you up to your mother
[F]No one will ever know
[C]The love as pure as the one [G]that you felt right the[C]n

[C]They held you [G]up, they held you[Dm] up
And e[C]verybody else they [G]fell to the wayside
[C]This is the stuff of beginning
[G]The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning
[F]A million synonyms will nev[C]er come close to describe t[G]he feeling

FFF CCC G
Dont ever leave cause if you do dear
I guaran[C]tee that you’ll[F] regret

The day you did
And youll miss a[C]ll the simple things
And youll see ev[F]erything you ever loved
Start f[G]ading till there's [F]nothing left but dust
}

[CHORUS]
{

[C]And I bel[G]ieve that [F]every broken bo[G]ne is meant to b[C]e
And when it h[F]eals it will be [G]stronger than it was before
A[C]nd I see the [G]things that I pr[F]etend tha[G]t I don't s[C]ee
An[F]d I store them in my [G]head, love
[G]If only for memories
}

[Same as I]
{
So now youre young and you feel alone
Despite frien[F]ds, family, and all the good things now surrounding you
You cant help thinking
Oh there's gotta be some more to do
When all the things that you cherish
Turn into burdens and there is
No other fantasy
You know what you gotta do but you don’t know how

They hold you back
They hold you down
And youre gonna feel bad but you know that you gotta get out
This is your pain your dilemma
Will you stay in the town that they raised you
Or will you sail away
Pull the anchor and go in for the [?] one day

You have to leave
Cause if you don’t dear
Youll never see the things you read about in books
You saw the films and you were hooked
But everything you want won’t come to you
And you realize now that you gotta go see this through
}

[CHORUS X2]

Key:

These repeated chords indicate a triple downward strum:
"FFF"

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