Great stuff here by a true master, Sting is truly the best.
Standard tuning (sorry about the mystery notes as I am not sure what they are called.)
Music and lyrics by Sting.
The Book of my life.
Let me [F#m]watch by the fire and remember my days
And it [E]may be a trick of the firelight
But the [B?/D#]flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a [D]book I m afraid to write
It s the[F#m] book of my days, it s the book of my life
And it s [E]cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it s[B?/D#] all there to see as the section reveals
There s[D] some sorrow in every life
If it re[A]ads like a puzzle, a wa[Bm]ndering maze
Then I [F#m]won t understand til the [D dim7]end of my days
I m still [D]forced to remember,
Rem[Bm]ember the words of my life [F?]
(sorry that s it for now more to come)
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There s a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
there s a chapter on loss and a ghost who won t die
There s a chapter on love where the ink s never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies.
Though the pages are numbered
I can t see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
There s a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat,
There s a page where we fail to meet
There are tales of good fortune that couldn t be planned
There s a chapter on god that I don t understand
There s a promise of Heaven and Hell but I m damned if I see
Though the pages are numbered
I can t see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
Now the daylight s returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that s left is you
Though the pages are numbered
I can t see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
Definitions
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B?/D# 001202
XX0232
002220
224432
Ddim7 xx1212
? 2xxxxx (let ring)