I Wanna Lay Down Beside You (One More Time)

Key: C major
Tempo: Slow & tender, like a whispered goodbye

[Verse 1]

C
The bed’s still made on your side
Am
Your perfume lingers in the air
F
I reach across the cold divide
G
But all I find is emptiness there

C
I see you in my fading dreams
Am
Your smile just out of reach
F
If time could give me back one night
G
There's just one thing I’d beseech

[Chorus]

C
I wanna lay down beside you, one more time
Am
Feel your heartbeat slow and rhyme with mine
F
No words, just silence, soft and true
G
Wrapped in the love I still feel for you

C
I’d trade a thousand mornings and a million rhymes
Am
To hold you close through one more night
F
Before the dawn takes you away from my mind
G C
I wanna lay down beside you… one more time

[Verse 2]

C
The clock keeps ticking louder now
Am
But it don’t measure time with grace
F
It counts the space between our love
G
And the tears that trace your face
C
I whisper things you’ll never hear
Am
Still hoping they find your soul
F
Even heaven must understand
G
Some goodbyes don’t feel whole

[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge]

Am
Maybe in another life
F
We'll find each other in the stars
C
But tonight I’d give it all
G
To be right back where you are

[Final Chorus – soft then building]

C
I wanna lay down beside you, one more time
Am
Feel the world fade away in the quiet divine
F
No forever, no promise, no grand design
G C
Just your hand in mine… one more time

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Writer: Songsmith