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Long Lost Penpal Tab

by Hello Saferide


Title: Long lost penpal
Artist: Hello Saferide
Album: Introducing

Chords by Johan Karlsson 

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Hello

Do you remember me
          
I am your long lost pen pal
                                             
It must have been ten years ago we last wrote
  
I don’t really know what happened
        
I guess life came in the way
                            
Let me know if you’re still alive
                                                
Let me know if you ever used that knife or not


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Hello

Yes I remember you
           
I’ve got a husband and two children now
                                                  
I work as an accountant and make fairly good money
                                    
I still have your letters, you used a pink pen to write them
                    
And you would comfort me
                            
when my tears would stain the ink
                                                 
And I would send you mix tapes with Kate Bush on

                                        
    I have to admit I sometimes lied in those letters
                            
Tried to make life better than it was
               
I still wasn’t kissed at sixteen
                   
And I still need a friend

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There was this letter
        
I never told you this back then
                                                
But it would be fair to say it saved my life

I sat in the window
             
The only one left out from a party again
                            
Pretty sure I didn’t have a single friend
                              
Then I checked the mailbox


Dear long lost penpal
      
I was lying the whole time
                                         
I’m really a 46 years old man named Luke

I have three children
      
and a wife, she doesn’t care
                      
And I hope you don’t resent me
                    
And I hope you do not hate me
                                                            
For trying to find my way back to what it’s like to be young


                                        
    I have to admit I sometimes lied in those letters
                            
Tried to make life better than it was
               
I still wasn’t kissed at sixteen
                   
And I still need a friend

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