Sometimes I Forget Chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii

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_ _ _ Sometimes I forget _
_ [Db] _ _ that you've gone. _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ You've gone and you're not [Ab] coming back.
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_ And it's hard to believe _ [Db] you're still not here.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ What's left [Ab] behind disputes that fast. _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ Your closet's still full [Ab] of your clothes and your shoes. _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ And your bookcase [Ab] still holds all your books.
_ It's _ _ [Db] _
_ _ as if all you've [Ab] done was to go out of town.
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_ _ You'll be back soon, [Ab] that's just [Eb] how it looks.
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But your suitcase is empty.
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It's right here in the hall.
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_ That's not even the [Ab] strangest thing.
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_ _ _ _ Why [Ab] would you leave your wallet behind?
Your _ _ [Db] _
_ glasses, [Eb] _ your [Bbm] wristwatch and rain.
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Your glasses, [Eb] your wristwatch [Ab] and rain. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Sometimes I forget [Db] _
that you've gone.
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_ And that we'll never see you [Ab] again. _
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_ _ I think for a moment I [Db] gotta give him a call.
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_ But I can't now, [Ab] I realize then.
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Now we can't meet for [Ab] lunch at the usual place.
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_ The place where we [Ab] always would go.
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And there was something I wanted to [Ab] tell you so bad.
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Something I knew that [Eb] you'd want to know.
_ _ _ [Ab] Oh, [Bbm] _ _
I could go by myself [Ab] _ to _ our old haunt.
[Bbm] But _ _ that seems [Ab] such a strange thing to do.
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_ The waiters would [Ab] wonder what was going on.
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[C] Why weren't [Eb] you there?
_ [Bbm] Where were you?
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_ Why [Eb] weren't you [Ab] there?
Where were you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Sometimes I forget [Db] _
that you've gone.
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_ _ _ I remember and I [Ab] feel the ache.
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How could it have happened?
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How could it be?
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_ _ It's not true, there [Ab] must be some mistake.
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_ _ Oh, mentos and [Ab] memories, tell me what good are they?
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_ No, they're not much to [Ab] have in the whole.
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_ And it's true that you've gone and you're [Ab] not coming back.
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_ _ And this world seems so [Eb] empty and cold.
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[Bbm] _ _ _ But sometimes something [Ab] happens _ and it doesn't seem strange. _
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ You're not [Ab] far away, you're near. _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ Sometimes I forget _ that you have gone. _ _
_ [Db] _ _ Sometimes [Eb] it feels [Bbm] like you're right here. _ _
_ [Db] _ _ Right now it [Eb] feels like [Ab] you're right here. _ _ _ _
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