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ALWAYS STARTING OVER

Music by TOM KITT

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Lyrics by BRIAN YORKEY

Moderately slow
C(add2)/E D(add2)/F#
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Colla voce
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4 G5
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LIZ:
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     
In my life I nev - er thought I’d get a

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G5/F#
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 
 

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sec - ond chance I thought I was done— then I met you. And though

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10 G5/F F G/F

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        
I nev - er dreamed I could learn how to love a - gain, I placed my

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13 C(add2)/E Cm(add2)/E¨ Cm6/E¨

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   

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       
          
bet and you came through I

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    

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D7sus G/D C#m7(¨5)
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    
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     
some - how still lost. I some - how al - ways do

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Steady pulse (q. = 64)

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Em(add2)/C#
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Csus2

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  

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This time feels new.

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               
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C Csus
      
         

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Thank you for find - ing me— and thank you for the care— and

        

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Csus2 C Csus
 Gm Gsus2 Gsus
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Gm
 
      

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       
fuck you for mak - ing me think that this life might be fair. You

        

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   
      
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        
    

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
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C Csus2,4
  
C
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Csus2,4
  
 

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        
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prom - ised to love me— a prom - ise you kept— and

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C Csus2,4
 
C Csus2,4
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      

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       
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I won’t be sor - ry that you said to leap and I

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 
Gm Gsus2 Gsus Gm B¨(add2) B¨sus2,#4 B¨(add2) B¨sus2,#4

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leapt. I won’t re - gret what I did then, though it

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37Gm7(add4) Gm7(add4,6) Gm7(add4) Gm7(add4,6)

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hurts more than I could i - mag - ine back when, all the

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E¨ E¨sus2,#4 E¨ E¨sus2,#4 Gsus
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         
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same, e - ven so I would love you all o - ver a - gain.

       
      
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42 G Am Em
       

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Am I al - ways start - ing o - ver? In a

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                 
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p sub. mf

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45 F(add2) F C Csus2/B Am
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brand new sto - ry am I al - ways back at

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Em F(add2) F Gsus G
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one af - ter all I’ve done? ’Cause I’ve

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51 C Dm7 C/E

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burned all of my bridg - es and learned ev - ’ry last

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54 F F(add2) Gm Gm(add2) F

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les - son too. So how can I start

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Driving
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C5 D Dsus2,4

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new? I’ll love our chil - dren, both

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p mf
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60 D Dsus2,4 D Dsus2,4

       

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fierce - ly and well. When they ask a - bout you, oh

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62 D Dsus2,4 D Am Asus2 Asus Am

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   
       
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Lord - y, the sto - ries I’ll tell. And

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            
   

 
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D Dsus2,4 D Dsus2,4
              

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I won’t re - gret the lives I did - n’t lead. I

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         
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              
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 D Dsus2,4 D Dsus2,4 D
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   
           

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knew you, I loved you, and let that be all that I

 
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              

               
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  Am   
68 Asus2 Am G/B C Csus2,#4
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        

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need. Say that it’s fate.

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     
                   
     
f

                
     

 C
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  
Csus2,#4 Am7 D7/A

    
     

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Say it’s fore - told. I’m through with fight - ing it—

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                 
               
  

 Am7
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D7/A F Fsus2,#4
   
          

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I’m much too old. What the gods have to give I’ll

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              
 
             


 F Fsus2,#4 F Asus A
74

        
  


take, and I’ll live, and be bold.


       
   

   

   

  
       
     
mf cresc.
    
              
 
8

 Asus  
77 A Bm

         


If we’re al - ways start - ing

 
             
   

  
         
   

 f
  
                  
   



 F#m G(add2) G D Dsus2/C#
80

          
 


o - ver ev - ’ry brand - new morn - ing, then we’re


    
  
     
                    
                     
   



   
 Bm F#m G(add2) G
83

        


al - ways start - ing out with the end in


       
                       
                 
      


 Asus A D

Em7(add4)

 
86

       


    
doubt. We can leave life for to - mor - row or


    
 

             
           
mf
                     

 
 9

D/F# 
89
Gsus2
    


 
grieve all that we thought we’d


      


  
             
cresc.

             

 



 Am 
  
91
Asus2 Am G
  


 
do, or make each mo - ment

 
   
 

 

 

   


 
mf
        
  


Csus2  
93
Gsus2 G
  


       
new. All that has hap - pened is hap - pen - ing

        

           
 


      
p

 

   
96 C(add2) Gsus2 G/F

 


       
now. All that might hap - pen is here, some -

        


           


 
  
 
    
   
10

   
99 E¨(add2) B¨sus2 B¨/A

   


      
how. All of the choic - es that made me,

 
 
  
         
   
mp


cresc.

 
     
  
 

 

  

102
G Cm(add2) Csus2,4 Cm

  
    
 


me. All of the ac - ci - dents yet to

      
   
  
 
    
  

 

mf

  

  
105
G Gsus2 G C(add2)
    


  

be. All that’s a - head and all that’s be -

    
 
         
       
mp

 

cresc. poco a poco
   
  

108 Cm Csus2,4 Cm

                


 
hind. It’s all in the mo - ment I make up my mind and o - pen my

      

                 
cresc.
               
  
 11


111 E¨sus2,#4 E¨ E¨sus2,#4 E¨ E¨maj7 E¨6

 




heart and

       
                              
f

            
             
  


114 F7(add4) E¨/F F7(add4) E¨/F F7(add4)

   


start and

                   

                      
                        
   

    
117
G5
  


start. ’Cause we’re

                         
                   

p sub. cresc.
    
        
      


     
120 µ Cm Gm A¨(add2) A¨

          


al - ways start - ing o - ver ev - ’ry life we’re

  
  
                        

  
f

 
     
     
        
 

12

  
E¨ E¨maj7/D Cm Gm
  
123

          
 


liv - ing, and we’re al - ways just a - wake ev - ’ry


                      
               

   

      
 
          
      

  

126 A¨(add2) A¨ B¨sus B¨ E¨
           


step we take. And, my love, our life is o -


                 
                 

                        

   

 
129 Fm7(add4) E¨/G A¨sus2
 
             


- ver. But, love, I’ll make you one last


  
                             
                     
   

132 B¨m7(add4) A¨/B¨ C¨6/9


     
   
   



vow, to start o - ver and o - ver and

     
             
                  

mp cresc. poco a poco

 

                 
   

 13





135

C¨6/9(#4)
            


o - ver some - how. My new life starts right

          


 
8va

         


   
f

   
poco rit.

    
    



 
138 A¨(add2)/C B¨7(add4)/D

   


now!

           
                   

 
p a tempo

     

cresc. poco a poco

       


    

141
A¨(add2)/C


    
          
 
    mf
    
    
   

   

B¨7sus B¨9 B¨7sus B¨7 E¨



144





 
      
          

f ff

 
 

     
      
  