I Meant To Do That Chords by Paul Brandt

_ [G] Before I got into the music business, I [Bm] worked for a couple of years as a registered nurse
at the [G] children's hospital back home.
This is one of the [Bm] most incredible times of my life.
I'd been making trips down to Nashville [Em] and writing songs, and that's when this song was written.
And then went back home and [G] found out that there was a little girl that I'd been taking
care of in the hospital that had to come back in and [F#m] wasn't doing very well.
I went in to see her, and [E] I walked into the room, and it was dark in the room, and [D] all
I could see was that there were people gathered around her, and they were [G] trying to help her
to breathe, and they were working on her.
[D] And I walked up and knelt down beside her bed, and I said, hey, Amy Lee, how are you [C] doing?
And the first thing that she said to me was, hey, Paul, how was your trip to Nashville?
[G] And I couldn't believe it.
She was more concerned with me than [D] anything that was going on in that room.
She actually had to fight to take in the [C] breath to ask me how I was doing.
[D] None of us in the room could have known [C] it, but it was the last chance that we were going
[G] to get to see Amy.
I went back home, and I was [D] thinking of the words of this song.
It's a song about a guy who had a lot of chances to do a lot of different things and never
took those chances, and now wishes that he [C] would have.
[G] Amy Lee wasn't like that at all.
She was the kind of kid that [Bm] made sure she made the most out of every single moment,
and she taught me to make [C] sure that I was going to live my life in a way that I never
ever had to say [Bm] I meant to do.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ A table [G] for two, a soft [D] candlelight.
The words [Em] I love you somewhere in [D] the night.
I meant to [G] do that.
Does that mean [D] a thing?
If you [C] wanted songs, then I meant [D] to sing.
I'd give you [G] the world if you'd give [D] mine back.
What I [C] didn't do, _ _ [D] _ [C] I meant to [G] do that.
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Late [G] in the night, nothing [D] to say. _
Maybe [Em] a call to talk [D] anyway.
A letter [G] or two, _ some [D] words that rhyme.
I promise [Em] you love, for now and [D] all time.
I meant to [G] do that.
Does that mean [D] a thing?
If you [C] wanted songs, then I meant [D] to sing.
I'd give you [G] the world if you'd give [D] mine back.
What I [C] didn't do, _ _ [D] _ [C] I meant to [G] do that.
_ _ [Bm] _ Hold on till [C] the love you gave, [G] until the [D] end of time.
_ [Bm] _ And love you [C] more every day, [G] until you know [D] that I meant to [G] do that.
Does that mean [D] a thing?
If you [Em] wanted songs, then I meant [D] to sing.
I'd give you [G] the world if you'd give mine back.
What I [C] didn't do, _
_ [D] I [C] meant to [G] do that. _ _
[D] What _ I [C] didn't do, _
_ [D] _ [C] I meant to [G] do that. _
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