INTRO:  FA LA-7 SOL-7 LAdim FA

FA
Within a little while from now
       LA-7
If I'm not feeling any less sour
  DO-7
I promise myself to treat myself
    LA-7       RE7
And visit a nearby tower
    SOL-7                   SOL-7    DO7
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
      FA               FA7+
In an effort to make it clear to who
     FA7                        RE MI7
Ever what it's like when you're shattered

     LA-7                        LA-7
Left standing in the lurch by the church
             RE7     SOL-7
Where people saying: "My God, that's tough

She's tored him up"
SOL-7           DO7
No point in us remaining 
FA
You may as well go home
      LA-7        RE7
Cause I did on my own
 SOL-7     SIdim     FA
Alone again,      naturally

   FA
To think that only yesterday
      LA-7
I was cheerful, bright and gay
        DO-7
Looking forward to wouldn't do

    LA-7            RE7
The role I was about to play
       SOL-7
But as if to knock me down
  SOL-7    DO7
Reality came around 
      FA                 FA7+
And without so much, as a mere touch
       FA7         RE MI7
Cut me into little peaces
LA-7
Leaving me to doubt
      LA-7    RE7
About God and His mercy
   SOL-7
Or if He really does exist
SOL-7         DO7
Why did He desert me 
FA
And in my hour of need 

  LA-7       RE7
I truly am indeed
 SOL-7     LAdim     FA
Alone again,      naturally


   LAb         
It seems to me that there are more hearts
    REb                              LA-7
broken in the world that can't be mended
SI7    FA-7
Left unattended
           SOL-7         DO7
What do we do? What do we do?

STRUM: 
FA LA-7 DO-7 LA-7 RE7 SOL-7 DO7

FA FA7+ FA7 RE MI7 LA-7 RE7 

SOL-7 DO7 FA LA-7 RE7

 SOL-7     LAdim     FA
Alone again,      naturally


    FA

And looking back over the years
     LA-7
When everyone stands and fears 
    DO-7
I remember I cried when my father died
      LA-7            RE7
Never wishing to dry the tears 
       SOL-7
And at sixty-five years old
   SOL-7            RE7
My mother, God rest her soul,
         FA                FA7+
Couldn't understand why the only man
             FA7           RE MI7
She had ever loved had been taken
LA-7                        LA-7          RE7

Leaving her to stop with the heart so badly broken
  SOL-7
Despite encouragement from me
   SOL-7          DO7
No words were ever spoken
         FA
And when she passed away
   LA-7              RE7
I cried and cried all day
 SOL-7     LAdim     FA   LA-7 RE7
Alone again,      naturally
 SOL-7     LAdim     FA
Alone again,      naturally