A Better Version Chords by 36 Questions & Jessie Shelton

_ _ _ [Cm] _ [Eb] My life started when I went for a jog and spotted you in the park
Sitting with a dog
[G] So I [Ab] stopped and asked can I pet [Eb] your dog?
So there we were me and this golden retriever basking in the abundance of Sun Austin provides
Suddenly you [G] blurted out
This isn't my dog
Actually, [Ab] it's my friend's dog Sheila.
I'm taking care of her while [G] he's away
She's on a lot of _
[Cm] medication [Eb] and
I laughed and you laughed saying you didn't want to be found out when you asked me to coffee and there was no dog.
[G] I
Said yes, and you said I'm [Cm] Chase.
What's your name?
And I heard the perfect opportunity _ _
To be someone else entirely
_ Free from my history
History for one single cup of coffee.
I would [G] be Natalie
_ Obviously, that's not how it went down one cup of coffee turned into two bottles of wine three desserts and staying up talking
Till 4 in the morning
Too late to backpedal
Too good not to keep going
[Bb] It felt like my
life
But a better version
_ [Eb] _ With [Bb] you
My life I was a better person I
[Eb] Heard music in the words you were saying [Bb] melodies with no band playing
For the first time [Ab] I was
in love
_ [Bb] _ [Ab] And I love _
[Db] who I was with you
[Cm] _ _ _
All the mundane shit.
I used to hate like recycling plastic and flossing every day
[Eb] Making breakfast paying bills watering the plants on our [G] windowsill wasn't invigorated [Ab] with your sense of [Eb] wonder
Pillow talk afternoon walks holding hands in the parking lot of Home Depot dealing with inevitable
Misfortunes that were barely manageable like that time.
We accidentally hit a squirrel with your car
[Cm] _ [Eb] That was an unfortunate
Anecdote do you know what I mean?
_ It [Bb] felt like
My [Bb] life but a better version
_ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] With you
[Eb] my
[Bb] Life I was a better [Ab] person.
I
[Eb] Heard music in the words [Bb] you were saying melodies with no band [Eb] playing
For the first time [Ab] I was
[Eb] in love
_ [Bb] _
And I [Ab] love _ [Db] who I [Eb] was
You [Cm] my _ _ _ [Eb] parents finally tracked me down after years of jumping from [G] town to town they found
[Eb] You and me men in suits at our front door asking you about Judith [G] Ford and I knew
[Eb] Instantly
_ _ [D]
They say [Cm] before you die
Your [D] whole life flashes before your very [Cm] eyes
Well, it didn't the first [G] time but this time [Eb] I heard each and every lie
[F] _
[Ab] I'd ever told you I [Bb] tried to cling to the [G] life I'd made
[Cm] To get out with [Ab] you.
So I did the only
[Bb] thing I
How to [G] I denied?
Who I [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
wanted [Bb] to keep [Eb] my life the better version
_ [Bb] _ [C] Natalie
_ [Ab] Your wife.
She was a better person.
[Eb] I
Memorized your voice [Bb] and how you say goodbye, but you [Eb] never said goodbye
[Ab] You never said goodbye [Eb] and I
_ [C] To I
[Eb] Like [Db] and who I [Eb] was with you
[Cm] _ Who I was [Eb] with you _ who I was with you _ _ _