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🎸 Verse 1:
A    G     D        G       F#m       Em
 Hallelujah
I'm listening to a recording of you sleeping next to me
A    G     D           G   F#m     Em
 A cappella
I'm listening to you cover Elliot Smith's "Angeles"
      G     D     A
It's these times I'll need if you go
      G      D     A
It's these times I'll need if you go, so



🎸 Chorus:
D      Bm
 Get better, my darling
G       D
 I know you will
D      Bm
 Get better, my darling
G       D E7
 I know you will

Get better
🎸 Verse 2:
   D      Bm
I'm drawn to the motorway
   D           G
The cold whoosh of trucks passing
   D        Bm
This nightmare under sodium light
   D           G
The orange spread is soul-quietening
   D        G
A younger you and a younger me

Meeting at The Serpentine
   E7      D A
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D G F#m Em   D


🎸 Verse 3:
 A   G
Happy birthday
 D
Staff smuggled in a card I made
  G   D      A
It rests under your pillow
 A      G     D
When out of ICU I'll cringe at all the "I love you"s
G        D      A
The card retired the life of one biro
     G   D       A
At this time I wanted you to know
     G   D       A
At this time I wanted you to know

🎸 Chorus:
D      Bm
 Get better, my darling
G       D
 I know you will
D      Bm
 Get better, my darling
G       D E7
 I know you will

Get better

🎸 Verse 4:
   D         Bm
I'll start the day with tiramisu
     D         G
Raise a spoon to front line workers
  D      Bm
An underfunded principle
      D        G
They risk all to be there for us
  D         G
A younger you and a younger me
Bm
Meeting at The Serpentine
   E7       D A
I am yours, you are mine

🎸 Instrumental:
D G F#m Em   D


🎸 Verse 5:
 A      G
You were the baker
    D               G    D      A
I'll christen this new era with the smell of freshly baked bread
 A    G     D
Your Nutella
I'll keep it in the cellar
     G    D       A
You were always a fan of that spread
   G          D      A
Six months on, there's a car crash outside
G    D        A
The fire brigade using the jaws of life
   G         D      A
No flush at night to sound your return
      G      D      A
I still pretend you're only out of sight
        G     D
Front garden bouquet
I threw it at the fire brigade
G           D         A
I was admonished and told to go back inside
A            G     D                 G
 From the living room window I stand and watch the white sheet go over the
    D         A
family car and I close my eyes
      G      D      A         G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D        A
Smiling at your phone
      G      D      A        G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D        A
Smiling at your phone
      G      D      A        G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D        A
Smiling at your phone
      G      D      A        G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
 D        A
Smiling at your phone
      G
I still pretend

🎸 Outro:
 G      D   A   G
Hey younger me, a younger you
        D   A  G
Meeting at The Serpentine
          D          A       G
The beginning of spring, you wore those yellow ripped jeans
           D A
Your look defined my 2009
G        D    A  G
 Your shyness stoked my boldness
       D    A
"Shall we go in "
I smiled
G          D          A
 Your hand warmed walking through the gallery
G D A

D         Bm
 (Get better,)
G      D
 I know I will
D        Bm
 (Get better,)
     G       D E7
My darling
I know I will