Chords for Rob Thomas - "If You're Gone" - Atlantic City, NJ 1-18-19

_ _ _ Hold on, I have to consult. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I consulted, it's good. _ _
So when I met Maddie the [G] first time,
you gotta understand, and her dad's here, who is now my dad, [E] my dad, and this is his
birthday, [D] so happy birthday [Gm] to you.
_ _ [N] _ _
But _ she was not the kind of person that would date
a dad that was in a band.
And this was the 90s.
So I want to say this, because everything
I'm about to say after, it makes a lot of sense of the time that we're in.
First, _ she
comes home and says, I met this guy, I love him.
_ And it's very sweet.
Her dad, _ dad, _ _ comes
in, throws out a [D#] picture of Scott Ryland on the table and goes, is this him?
_ [D#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] Then [F#] her
best friend, who is now my best friend, Dayan, who is not here, and if he was, we would hear
him cackle.
[D] _ _ _ He walks in the room when she's not there to the family _ and has [G#] an intervention _
_ _ and says, Maddie is a [C] groupie.
_ [F] _
_ She's dating this [B] fucking guy in a band? _
[A] _ He wears [F] eyeliner
and eye polish?
[N] _
_ _ _ _ 90s, 90s, look at that.
The _ 90s did a lot of bad things to good people.
And _ _ these _ _ were things that we kind of shoved off.
And then one day I was [Gm] out and [F] we were
very early, early on.
And she called me and said, this just can't work.
We are too different.
_ _ Your life isn't my life.
This isn't what I want to do.
She had just gotten her master's
degree from St.
[B] John's in marketing.
She was going on forward and doing this.
I [D#] was just
a ball of crack fuckery.
I didn't know what I was going to do.
I was just lucky.
And I
had just sold a few [F] records.
So I was at this time in our life, I was more famous than she
thought that I was, _ [N] but less famous than I thought that I was. _ _ _
_ _ And so that [A#] night she
called me.
I was in Denver.
I remember I was in a [B] hotel room.
[C#] I sat down [C] and I wrote this
song.
And this [G] song was a get _ [C] your [F] life that you know is your future.
You see it right
there and it's about [N] to leave you and just do whatever you can to get it back song.
And
because I don't have any other skills, I can't fix her car or her television.
I can't do
math problems.
I could write a song. _ _ _
_ And so I wrote this song _ and this is a story about
_ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
something.
[Bm] I think we [E] should try.
I think I can meet [Bm] this in my [C#] life.
And I [B] think I'm
[Bm] scared, but I [E] think it's so beach.
[G] I know this for all you for bottom.
I see that you're
[A] wrong.
_ _ Maybe it's time to [D] come home.
[G] _ _ [A] _ _
Cause [Bm] there's an awful [B] lot of breathing [E] room, but
I [A] can't heard. _ _ _ _ _
And if you're gone, _ baby, you need [D] to come _ home.
[C#] _ _ [A] _
[Bm] There's a little bit of
something [E] _ in everything.
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[A] _ And I'll bet your [D] heart to you. _
_ _ [E] Not that my [D] room.
They just
won't show, _ [A] but I'll bet both [Dm] hands.
I can [A] stay here.
I [B] bet you [Bm] need more [E] than you. _ _
_ _ Thank
you.
[B] So me, [B] I think we should try.
[E] I think [A] I can meet this [D] in my [A] life.
And I [Bm] think I'm
scared that I'm going _ [E] to [G] _ create.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [A] Maybe it's time to [D] come home.
[Bm] _
_ [B] _ _ Cause there's an awful
lot of breathing [E] _ room, but I [A] can't heard. _ _
_ [B] _ _ And [A] if you're gone, _ baby, you [D] need to come
home.
[A] What's wrong?
_ [B] There's a little bit of something [E] in me, in _ [Bm] everything. _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ [C#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
And I think
it's [Bm] so mean.
I think we should [E] try.
I think I can meet this [D] in my [A] life.
And I think [B] I'm
scared.
Do I talk too [E] much?
_ [G] I know this for all you for bottom.
I see that you're [E] wrong.
_ [A]
Maybe it's time [D] to come home. _ _ _
[A] _ You [B] see, there's an [Bm] awful lot of breathing [E] room, but [B] I can't
heard. _ _ _
_ And if you're gone, _ baby, you need to [D] come _ home.
[A] Don't you come home.
[Bm] There's
a little bit of something [E] in me, in [Bm] everything.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] Something in [E] me, in everything.
[B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ In you. _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _