Written in the stars

Leann Rimes and Elton John
Tom: C
Intro: C  F3 F  C  F3 F

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I am here to tell you we can never meet again
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Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then
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A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
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You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell
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The someone you once loved so long ago so well

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Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
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You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
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Every moment of my life from now until I die
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I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
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How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand

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Is it written in the stars
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Are we paying for some crime
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Is that all that we are good for
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Just a stretch of mortal time

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Is this God's experiment
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In which we have no say
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In which we're given paradise
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But only for a day

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Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
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No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
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You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
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Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
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What it is to be in love and have that love returned
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