A Better Man

A BETTER MAN
By: James Hayden Nicholas & Clint Black
Key: E

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What do you say when it’s o-ver?
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Don’t know if I should say
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An-y-thing at all
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One day we’re roll-in’ in the clov-er
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Next thing you know we take the fall

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Still, I think a-bout the years
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since I first met you
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And the way it might have been
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With-out you here
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I don’t know if words from me
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can still up-set you
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But I’ve just got-ta make this
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Mem-o-ry stand clear

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I know I’m leav-in’ here a bet-ter man
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For know-in’ you this way
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Things I could-n’t do be-fore,
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now I think I can
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And I’m leav-in’ here a bet-ter man

I guess I always knew I couldn’t hold you
But I’d never be the one to set you free
Just like some old nursery rhyme your mama told you
You still believe in some old meant-to-be

Still I’m leavin’ here a better man
For knowin’ you this way
Things I couldn’t do before, now I think I can
And I’m leavin’ here a better man

Yes I’m leavin’ here a better man
For knowin’ you this way
Things I couldn’t do before, now I know I can
And I’m leavin’ here a better man

Yes I’m leavin’ here a better man