Get Better

[Verse 1]
A                 D                 G             D                A
  Hallelujah, I'm listening to a recording of you sleeping next to me
     D                                 G        D          A
A cappella, I'm listening to you cover Elliot Smith's "Angeles"
            G         D           A
It's these times I'll need if you go
            G         D           A
It's these times I'll need if you go, so
 
[Chorus]
D           Bm
  Get better, my darling
G                D
  I know you will
        Bm            G
Get better, my darling
              D  E
I know you will
 
Get better
 
[Verse 2]
    D            Bm
I'm drawn to the motorway
    D                     G
The cold whoosh of trucks passing
     D               Bm
This nightmare under sodium light
    D                     G
The orange spread is soul-quietening
  D                 G
A younger you and a younger me
D
Meeting at The Serpentine
G      E              D
  I am yours, you are mine
 
A   D   G   A
E   D
 
[Verse 3]
A       G
  Happy birthday
      D
Staff smuggled in a card I made
   G     D             A
It rests under your pillow
            G        D
When out of ICU I'll cringe at all the "I love you"s
    G                D           A
The card retired the life of one biro
        G      D             A
At this time I wanted you to know
        G      D             A
At this time I wanted you to know
 
[Chorus]
D           Bm
  Get better, my darling
G                D
  I hope you will
         Bm           G
Get better, my darling
               D  E
I hope you will
 
Get better
 
[Verse 4]
     D                  Bm
I'll start the day with tiramisu
        D                   G
Raise a spoon to front line workers
   D           Bm
An underfunded principle
          D               G
They risk all to be there for us
  D
A younger you and a younger me
                       G
Meeting at The Serpentine
     E                 D
I am yours, you are mine
 
A   D   G   A
Em   D
 
[Verse 5]
A              G
  You were the baker
     D                               G        D            A
I'll christen this new era with the smell of freshly baked bread
       G            D
Your Nutella, I'll keep it in the cellar
         G        D           A
You were always a fan of that spread
           G             D         A
Six months on, there's a car crash outside
            G    D                  A
The fire brigade using the jaws of life
   G                 D             A
No flush at night to sound your return
           G           D           A
I still pretend you're only out of sight
             G          D
Front garden bouquet, I threw it at the fire brigade
G                    D                 A
I was admonished and told to go back inside
                     G         D
From the living room window I stand and watch the white sheet go
G               D                  A
over the family car and I close my eyes
            G          D           A                  G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D               A
Smiling at your phone
  G                    D           A                  G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D               A
Smiling at your phone
   G                   D           A                  G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D               A
Smiling at your phone
   G                   D           A                  G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D               A
Smiling at your phone
            G
I still pretend
 
[Outro]
          D     A       G
A younger me, a younger you
               D      A     G
Meeting at The Serpentine
                  D                     A                  G
The beginning of spring, you wore those yellow ripped jeans
                     D   A   G
Your look defined my 2009
             D         A    G
Your shyness stoked my boldness
             D        A     G
"Shall we go in?", I smiled
                 D                   A        G
Your hand warmed walking through the gallery
D              Bm
  (Get better)
G             D
  I know I will
               Bm
  (Get better)
          G              D   E
My darling, I know I will