C                     Fm6
1.  Well, baby, there you stand
   C/G                                 F    G7
    with your little head down in your hand.
   F              Am7                Dm              Am7
   Oh my God, you can't believe it's happening again.
        F                      Am7              Dm             F   G7
   Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end.

2. And you're back out on the street
   and you're tryin' to remember.
   How do you start it over? You don't know if you can.
   You don't care much for a stranger's touch but you can't hold your man.

    Am                       E/G#
R1:  You never thought you'd be alone
    G                 D/F#
    this far down the line
        F                          Em
    and I know what's been on your mind,
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    you're afraid it's all been wasted time.

   Bm7         E7                  Am
*:  The autumn leaves have got you thinking
   Bm7        E7                  Am
    about the first time that you fell.
   Bm7         E7         Am        C/G
    You didn't love the boy too much, no no,
           F   C/G        Fm6    F G  G7
   you just loved the boy too weller-well

3. So you live from day to day and you dream about tomorrow, oh.
   And the hours go by like minutes and the shadows come to stay.
   So ya take a little something to make them go away.

R2: And I could have done so many things, baby, if I could only stop my mind 
    from wond'rin' what I left behind and from worryin' bout this wasted time.
    Ab                             C
    Ooh, another love has come and gone.
    Ab                              C
    Ooh, and the years keep rushing on.
        F                 Am7            Dm                 Am7
    I remember what you told me before you went out on your own:
                F               Am7         Dm             G7
    sometimes to keep it together we got to leave it alone.

R3: So you can get on with your search, baby, and I can get on with mine.
                                           Dm            F  G7  C
    And maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time.

Am7 F C/G Ab C Am7 F C/G Ab Fm6 C