This song is for AJ, whom I still love (although she died many years 
ago; I don't know the person who has inhabited her body for the past 20 
years, nor does that person have any appeal to me).


  [G]                       [C]                   [G]
A long time between us / is what I thought I'd know.
                                  [D]
A long time between us / but that was so long ago.

  [G]                         [C]              [G]
A long time between us / that was the fairy tale.
                                  [D]                   [G]
A long time between us / Who'd've thought that we could fail?

[C]                                  [G]
But I went away for just a while, to finish up my school.
[C]                                [D]
But when I came back home to you / I learned I'd been a fool.

'Cause in that short time between us / you found another man.
Just a short time between us / and you offered him your hand.
That short time between us / became a chasm wide.
In that short time between us / inside my heart I died

But the years have past, and life went on; I hope you're doing well.
I never quite recovered from the magic of your spell.
It's been a long time between us / The girl I loved is gone.
A long time between us / but the flame still flickers on.