Better man    (video)

 

    C - G - F

 

    C                                              G

2. I know I’m probably better off on my own

                                         F

    than lovin' a man who didn’t know what he had when he had it.

           C                                                     G

    And I see the permanent damage you did to me,

                                    F

    never again, I just wish I could forget when it was magic.

 

                             F

    I wish it wasn’t 4 a.m., standing in the mirror,

                G

    saying to myself, you know you had to do it,

          F

    I know the bravest thing I ever did was run !

 

  C                                                                   G

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again,

                Am                           G                        F

but I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man.

              C                                                              G

And I know why we had to say goodbye like the back of my hand,

                 Am                           G                        F                    C

and I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man, a better man.

 

    C                                             G

2. I know I’m probably better off all alone

 

    than needing a man who could

F

    change his mind at any given minute.

                                    C                                                  G

    And it’s always on your terms, I’m hanging on every careless word,

                                         F

    hoping it might turn sweet again, like it was in the beginning.

 

                    F

    But your jealousy, I can hear it now,

                             G

    you’re talking down to me like I’ll always be around.

                           F                                                              F

    You push my love away like it’s some kind of loaded, yeah !

                     G

    Boy, you never thought I’d run !

 

+  CHORUS        +  C - G - Am - F

 

        F                                                      G

+  I hold onto this pride because these days it’s all I have,

                F                                               Am           G            F

    and I gave you my best and we both know you can’t say that.

      - - - - - - - - - - - -

    You can’t say that.  - - -

 

                                   C                                 G

+  I wish you were a better man, I wonder what we would’ve become,

                           F                        G

    if you were a better man, we might still be in love.

                            C                       G

    If you were a better man you would have been the one,

                            F

    if you were a better man, yeah, yeah !

 

  C                                                                   G

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again,

                Am                           G                       F

but I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man.

              C                                                              G

And I know why we had to say goodbye like the back of my hand,

                 Am                          G                         F

and I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man.

 

   C           G                                                  F

+     We might still be in love, if you were a better man,

             G                                                           C

    you could have been the one if you were a better man...

             G                                                   F

    We might still be in love, if you were a better man, better man.

 

(orig. = capo 5th)    (Little Big Town)