Sting - The book of my life

Let me ^F#mwatch by the fire and remember my days And it ^F#m/Emay be a trick of the firelight But the [H/D#]flickering pages that trouble my sight Is a ^Dbook I'm afraid to write

It's the ^F#mbook of my days, it's the book of my life And it's ^F#m/E cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife And it's [H/D#]all there to see as the section reveals There's some ^Dsorrow in every life

If it ^Areads like a puzzle, a [Hm]wandering maze Then I won't ^F#munderstand 'til the ^F#m/Ebend of my days I'm still ^Dforced to remember, Rem[Hm]ember the ^C#m words of my ^F#m life

There are ^F#mpromises broken and promises kept Angry ^F#m/E words that were spoken, when I should have wept There's a [H/D#] chapter of secrets, and words to confess If I lose ^D everything that I possess There's a ^Achapter on loss and a [Hm] ghost who won't die There's a ^F#mchapter on love where the ^F#m/C# ink's never dry There are [Hm]sentences served in a ^C#m]prison I built out of ^Dlies. [Hm]

^A [Hm] Though the ^Dpages are ^Enumbered ^{F#m D} I can't [Hm]see where they ^Elead ^{F#m D} For the [Hm]end is a ^Emystery ^Dno-one can read ^EIn the book of my ^F#mlife Interlude F#m

There's a ^Gmchapter on fathers a chapter on sons There are ^Gm/Fpages of conflicts that nobody won And the [C/E[battles you lost and your bitter defeat, There's a [D#]page where we fail to meet

There are ^Bbtales of good fortune that ^Cmcouldn't be planned There's a ^Gmchapter on god that I ^Gm/Edon't understand There's a ^Cmpromise of Heaven and ^DmHell but I'm damned if I ^D#see ^Cm

^{Bb Cm} Though the ^D#pages are ^Fnumbered ^{Gm D#} I can't ^Cmsee where they ^Flead ^{Gm D#} For the ^Cmend is a ^Fmystery ^D#no-one can read ^FIn the book of my ^Gmlife Interlude Gm

Now the ^Bbdaylight's[../C] re[../D]turning ^Cm And if one ^Gmsen[../A]tence is [../Bb]true ^Dm All these ^D#pages [../F] [../G]are burning ^F [../G] [../C] And ^Cmall ^Abthat's ^Bbleft ^Fmis you ^{G#m C#m E F# G#m E C#m F# G#m E C#m F# E F#}

[H] ^C#m Though the ^Epages are ^F#numbered ^{G#m E} I can't ^C#msee where they ^F#lead ^{G#m E} For the ^C#mend is a ^F#mystery ^Eno-one can read ^F#In the book of my ^G#mlife ^{G#m E C#m F# G#m E C#m F# G#m E C#m F# E F# G#m Fm}