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

[Verse 2]
C              F                 C                Em
Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
Am               F           C              G
You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
    C                 F       C              Em
Every moment of my life from now until I die
        Am            C              F
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
      Dm                            G
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand

[Chorus]
        C
Is it written in the stars
            Am
Are we paying for some crime
            F
Is that all that we are good for
           G
Just a stretch of mortal time

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

[Verse 3]
C              F                 C                Em
Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
Am               F                 C              G
No escape, no change of heart, nor anyplace to hide
    C              F             C              Em
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
        Am            C              F
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
      Dm                            G
What it is to be in love and have that love returned

[Chorus]
        C
Is it written in the stars
            Am
Are we paying for some crime
            F
Is that all that we are good for
           G
Just a stretch of mortal time

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