Tom: E
Intro: 2x: E A2
E A2
Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you
E A2
Counting my footsteps, prayin' the floor won't fall through, again
B Dbm B
My mother accused me of losing my mind
A2
But I swore I was fine
E A2
You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain
E A2
And I lived in your chess game but you changed the rules every day
B Dbm B A2
Wonderin' which version of you I might get on the phone, tonight.
B Dbm B A2
Well I stopped pickin' up and this song is to let you know why
E A
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone.
Dbm
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
B A
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home.
E A2
I shoulda known.
E A2
Well maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame.
E A2
Maybe it's you and your sick need to give love then take it away.
B Dbm B
And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors
A2
Who don't understand.
B Dbm B
And I'll look back in regret how I ignored when they said
A2
"Run as fast as you can."
E A
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone.
Dbm
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
B A
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home.
E A
Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong.
Dbm B
Don't you think nineteen's too young to be played by your dark twisted games
A
When I loved you so?
E A2
I shoulda known.
Dbm
You are an expert at sorry
B
And keeping lines blurry
A
And never impressed by me acing your tests
Dbm
All the girls that you run dry
B
Have tired lifeless eyes
A
'Cause you burned them out
B
But I took your matches
Dbm B
Before fire could catch me
A2
So don't look now
B
I'm shining like fireworks
A E A2
Dbm B A
Over your sad empty town
E A
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone.
Dbm
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
B A
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home.
E A
I see it all now that you're gone.
Dbm
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
B A2
The girl in the dress wrote you a song.
E
You shoulda known.
A2
You shoulda known.
E A2
Don't you think I was too young?
E
You shoulda known.