Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: | C D | G C | C | C D | 2x 🎸 Verse 1: C D G C Is this the life you chose yourself D Or just how it ended up? C D G C Is that the yard you pictured when D You closed your eyes and dreamed C D G C Of children in the grass running through the sprinklers? D Being somebody's wife? C D G C D Or were you living in another life?
🎸 Chorus: Am C When will I make it home? Em D When I damn well feel like driving Am C Down these empty streets Em Dsus4 D That burn through our birthright G D C D Em I passed a couple of kids holding hands in the street tonight G D C D They reminded me of us in another life 🎸 Instrumental: | C D | G C | C | C D | 2x 🎸 Verse 2: C D G C Am I the man of your desire? D Or just a guy from your hometown? C D G C Are these the arms that you saw when you D Pictured yourself wrapped around? N.C. Baby, I can vouch for the hopeless dreamer Cadd9 C D G C D When you look at me, am I the man you hoped I'd be? 🎸 Chorus: Am C When will I make it home? Em D When that jukebox in the corner Am C Em Dsus4 D Stops playing country songs of stories that sound like mine 🎸 Outro: G D C D Em I spent my best years laying rubber on a factory line G D C D C D G C I wonder what I would've been in another life D C D G C In another life D C D G C In another life D C D G C In another life