[Key: G | Tempo: 92 | Feel: warm rock / bittersweet lift] [Band: 4-piece rock: Vox/Gtr, Lead Gtr, Bass, Drums] [Chords: G D Em C]
[Intro | full band] [Drums: tight hat, light kick]
[Lead Gtr: bright arpeggio hook]
[G] [D] [Em] [C] x2
[Verse 1 | band in, restrained] [G] I keep counting hours like they’re coins in my hand
[D] Spending em twice just to feel like I can
[Em] Say “soon” like a promise I’m afraid to break
[C] Like love needs a calendar to know it’s awake
[G] We pass in the hallway with our “how was your day”
[D] Little pecks on the cheek in the doorway, half late
[Em] I tell myself “later” like later’s a place
[C] Then you laugh and it lands like a light on my face
[Pre | lift, bass walks] [Em] And I hate how I chase what I already hold
[C] Like the sun needs permission to turn into gold
[G] You don’t ask for a lot, you just ask me to stay
[D] So I drop what I’m doing and I learn how to say
[Chorus | big but clean, no cheese] [G] I want more time, but I’ve had you the whole time
[D] In the groceries and gas lights, in the long drive home lines
[Em] In the quiet “you okay” when you read me too well
[C] In the way you say my name like a safe little spell
[G] I kept waiting for “us” like we weren’t already there
[D] Like we weren’t in the breathing, in that worn out living room chair
[Em] If I get “more time,” let it start with me seeing
[C] All the life we’ve been living while I was still dreaming
[Turnaround | guitars answer] [G] [D] [Em] [C]
[Verse 2 | groove, lead gtr small melody] [G] We built a thousand tiny nights I forgot to call dates
[D] Burnt toast, cold coffee, holding hands at red lights, half awake
[Em] You know my storms by the way I get quiet
[C] You don’t fight em, you guide em, you sit right beside it
[G] And I realize “alone time” isn’t some finish line
[D] It’s the way you lean in when the world gets loud outside
[Em] The “someday” I begged for was hiding in plain view
[C] Wearing your old shirt, asking what you want to do
[Pre | cymbals open slightly] [Em] So I’m done chasing minutes like they run from me
[C] I’m done calling love something I’ll finally see
[G] If time is a river, then let me be still
[D] Let me float in this moment, let me drink my fill
[Chorus | bigger, backing vox “whole time”] [G] I want more time, but I’ve had you the whole time
[D] In the messy and mundane, in the good days we don’t headline
[Em] In the “text me when you’re close,” in the “lock the door”
[C] In the way you make a home out of any floor
[G] I kept waiting for “us” like we weren’t already here
[D] Like you haven’t been the song underneath every year
[Em] If I get “more time,” let it start with me meaning
[C] Every “I love you” I’ve been saying while still speeding
[Bridge | drop to half-time, intimate, then build] [Em] If the clock tries to scare me, I’ll laugh in its face
[C] Cause it can’t take the proof of your hand in my place
[G] I don’t need some perfect night, some planned out view
[D]
[Guitar Solo]
MY VIEW IS YOU!
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