Chords for Sting - The Book Of My Life

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Let me watch by the fire and remember my day.
[F] And it may be a trick of the firelight, [Bb] [E] but the flickering [C] page is the [E] trouble my sight.
[C] It's [Cm] a book I'm afraid to write.
It's [Gm] the book of my days, it's the book of my life.
And [Bb] it's cut like a [F] futon, the blade of a knife.
And [C] it's all there to see as the section reveals there's [Cm] some sorrow in every life.
If [Bb] it reads like a puzzle, [Cm] a wandering maze, then [G] I won't understand [Em] till the end of my days.
I'm [Cm] still forced to remember, [G] remember the words of [Gm] my life. _ _ _
Here are promises broken and promises kept.
Angry [Bb] words that were [F] spoken and I said,
Well, [C] there's a chapter of secrets and words to confess.
If [Eb] I lose everything that I possess, [F] there's [Bb] a chapter on loss and [Cm] a ghost who won't die.
There's [Gm] a chapter on love where [E] the inks never dry.
There [Cm] are sentences served in [D] a prison I built out [Eb] of _ lies.
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_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] All the pages [F] are [Gm] numbered.
_ _ [Eb] I [F] can't see where they lead.
[Gm] _ _ [Eb] For the end is [F] a mystery [Eb] no one can [F] read in the book of [Gm] my life. _ _ _ _
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[Gm] There's a chapter on fathers, a chapter on sons.
[Bb] There are pages [F] of conflicts that nobody won.
[C] And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat.
[Cm] There's a [Eb] page where we failed to meet.
[Bb] There are tales of good fortune [Cm] that couldn't be planned.
[Gm] There's a chapter on God [Em] that I don't understand.
[Cm] There's a promise of [Gm] heaven and hell, but I'm damned [Eb] if I see.
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_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ All the pages [F] are numbered.
[Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ I can't [F] see where they [Gm] lead.
_ [Eb] _ For the end [F] is a mystery [Eb] no one can read [F] in the book [Em] of my life. _ _ _ _
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Now [Bb] the daylight's returning.
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And [Gm] if one sentence is true,
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_ [Eb] All these pages are [F] burning. _
_ _ [C] The [Ab] love _ [Bb] that's [G] left [Abm] is [E] blue. _ _
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ All the pages [Gb] are numbered.
[Abm] _ _ [E] _ I can't [Gb] see where they lead.
[Abm] _ _ [E] _ For the end [Gb] is a [E] mystery no one can [Gb] read in the book of [B] my [E] life. _ _
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[Gb] In the book [Fm] of my life. _ _ _
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