Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

I

Am a wavering candle light

I remain but I’m ever slight

Through all my years

I sit

In my room in the fading light

Righting back all my wrongs tonight

Cos I’m still here

Boarded up all the doors

And I swallowed all the keys

I’m still haunted by

All the things I’ll never be

To live

Is to learn

Oh the heart’s a heavy burden

So I take

I don’t wait

Nothing ever is for certain

And I hold my hands up high

On my knees tonight

I’ll take

Won’t wait

I will live and learn my lesson here tonight

I

Never knew it could be so cold

But I burnt all the things I used to hold so dear

Still I fight

With my pen in my hand held tight

Writing protest songs tonight cos I’m still here

Boarded up all the doors

And I swallowed all the keys

I’m still haunted by

All the things I’ll never be

To live

Is to learn

Oh the heart’s a heavy burden

So I take

I don’t wait

Nothing ever is for certain

And I hold my hands up high

On my knees tonight

I’ll take

Won’t wait

I will live and learn my lesson here tonight

I will live and learn my lesson