Twenty Three

Verse:
                  F
Twenty three
                    Bb                         C
Make a wish, blow out the candles 
                    F
but I still see
                     Bb                         C
There’s an empty chair where you’re 
                          Dm
supposed to be
                     C             
Next to me

Verse 2:
                      F
Twenty three
                   Bb                   C                      F       
They say I got my whole life in front of me
                      Bb                   C                 Dm
But ever since you left, it’s harder to believe
                                                      C
And these tears are teaching me that

Chorus:
     F                     Bb
Time ain’t no friend
             C               Am
All it ever does is end
                  Dm                        Hdim          C
How was I supposed to know it’d be so soon
                 F                           Bb
Oh, but you sure made it count
                C                     Am
Boy you ran that road right out
                      Dm                  Hdim                C   
Made the most of every second God gave you
A/C#                          Dm              C
             And I’ll be lucky to live half 
                               Bb                         F/A
the life with the time that He gives me
                        Bb                    C                   F
Than all the years you fit in only twenty three

Verse 3:
 F/A                  Bb   
   You were blowing out 
                C                     F
your candles just like me
          F/A               Bb                  C             Dm
You had that I’m gonna live forever kinda free
                        F/C                      C                   
But why up there and not with me

Chorus:
     F                     Bb
Time ain’t no friend
             C               Am
All it ever does is end
                  Dm                        Hdim          C
How was I supposed to know it’d be so soon
                 F                           Bb
Oh, but you sure made it count
                C                     Am
Boy you ran that road right out
                      Dm                  Hdim                C   
Made the most of every second God gave you
A/C#                          Dm              C
             And I’ll be lucky to live half 
                               Bb                         F/A
the life with the time that He gives me
                        Bb                    C                   F
Than all the years you fit in only twenty three

Instrumental:
F  Bb  C  Am  Dm  Hdim  C  Csus  C

Outro:
                     F
Twenty three
                      Bb
Here’s to one more trip 
          C                         F
around the sun for me
                 Bb                       C                      Dm
I know you and God are looking down on me
                                         C
I’ll make you proud of me
                 F
In my 23