Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write
It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's cut like a fruit on [C7]the blade of a knife
And it's all [Em]there to [C7]see as the section [C7]ɾeveals
There's some sorrow in every life
If it ɾeads like [F]a puzzle, a wandering maze
Then I won't understand [Bm]â??til the end of my [A]days
I'm still forced to [C7]ɾemember,
Remember the words of my [A]life
There are promises broken and [Bm]promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and [Bm]words to [C7]confess
If I lose everything that I possess
There's a chapter on [C7]loss and [Bm]a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on [C7]love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison [C7]I built out of lies.
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can ɾead
In the book of my [A]life
There's a chapter on [C7]fathers a chapter on [C7]sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you [A7lost and [Bm]your bitter defeat,
There's a page where we fail to [C7]meet
There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be [Am]planned
There's a chapter on [C7]god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and [Bm]Hell but I'm damned if I see
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can ɾead
In the book of my [A]life
Now the daylight's ɾeturning
And if one sentence is tɾue
All these pages are burning
And all [Em]that's left is you
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can ɾead
In the book of my [A]life
