[Intro]
RE LA SIm LA SOL
[Versetto]
RE 
 Down the block there's an antique
 shop 
 Down the block there's an antique shop 
    LA 
And something in my head said stop,
 so I walked in 
And something in my head said stop, so I walked in 
SIm 
On the counter was a cardboard box 
        SOL 
And the sign said, 'Photos twenty
 five cents each' 
And the sign said, 'Photos twenty five cents each' 
RE                              
 Black and white, saw a thirties
           LA 
 bride and school lovers
 laughing on the porch of their first house 
 Black and white, saw a thirties bride and school lovers laughing on the porch of their first house 
SIm                                
  The kinda love that you only find
           SOL 
 once in a lifetime 
  The kinda love that you only find once in a lifetime 
  
The kind you don't put down 
LA                 SIm           
 And that's when I called you and
      SOL          RE         LA
 it's so hard to explain, but in
               SIm        SOL 
 those photos I saw us instead 
 And that's when I called you and it's so hard to explain, but in those photos I saw us instead 
LA             SIm              
 And somehow I know that you and I
 SOL                   RE 
 would've found each other 
 And somehow I know that you and I would've found each other 
LA                                 
In another life, you still would've
        SOL 
 turned my head 
In another life, you still would've turned my head 
     LA 
Even if wе'd met
[Ritornello]
     RE 
On a crowded street in 1944 
LA 
 And you werе headed off to fight in
 the war 
 And you werе headed off to fight in the war 
SIm                       LA 
  You still would've been mine 
                   SOL 
We would have been timeless 
           RE 
I would've read your love letters
 every single night 
I would've read your love letters every single night 
LA                                
 And prayed to God you'd be coming
          SIm 
 home all right 
 And prayed to God you'd be coming home all right 
                      LA 
And you would've been fine 
                   SOL 
We would have been timeless 
       RE             LA     
'Cause I believe that we were
             SOL 
 supposed to find this 
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this 
                       SIm      
So even in a different life, you
                     LA 
 still would've been mine 
So even in a different life, you still would've been mine 
                
We would've been
 RE       LA SIm LA SOL 
 timeless
We would've been timeless
[Versetto]
RE 
 I had to smile when it caught my eye
 
 I had to smile when it caught my eye 
          LA 
There was one of a teenage couple in
 the driveway 
There was one of a teenage couple in the driveway 
SIm                                  
  Holding hands on the way to a dance
         SOL 
 and the date on the back said 1958 
  Holding hands on the way to a dance and the date on the back said 1958 
RE 
 Which brought me back to the first
 time I saw you 
 Which brought me back to the first time I saw you 
LA 
Time stood still like something in
 this old shop 
Time stood still like something in this old shop 
SIm                              
  I thought about it as I started
                         SOL 
 looking 'round at these precious
 things that time forgot 
  I thought about it as I started looking 'round at these precious things that time forgot 
LA             SIm         SOL 
 That's when I came upon a book
            RE 
 covered in cobwebs 
 That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs 
LA                 SIm           SOL 
Story of a romance torn apart by fate
 
Story of a romance torn apart by fate 
LA           SIm            SOL    
 Hundreds of years ago they fell in
           RE 
 love like we did 
 Hundreds of years ago they fell in love like we did 
LA                          SOL 
 And I'd die for you in the same way
 
 And I'd die for you in the same way 
           LA 
If I first saw your face
[Ritornello]
       RE 
In the fifteen hundreds off in a
 foreign land 
In the fifteen hundreds off in a foreign land 
LA 
 And I was forced to marry another
 man 
 And I was forced to marry another man 
SIm                       LA 
  You still would've been mine 
                   SOL 
We would have been timeless 
             RE 
I would have read your love letters
 every single night 
I would have read your love letters every single night 
LA 
 And run away and left it all behind
 
 And run away and left it all behind 
SIm                       LA 
  You still would've been mine 
                 SOL 
We would've been timeless 
       RE             LA     
'Cause I believe that we were
             SOL 
 supposed to find this 
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this 
                       SIm      
So even in a different life, you
                     LA 
 still would've been mine 
So even in a different life, you still would've been mine 
                
We would've been
 RE       LA SIm LA SOL 
 timeless
We would've been timeless
[Ponte]
LA          SIm       SOL      RE 
Time breaks down your mind and body 
LA        SIm               SOL 
Don't you let it touch your soul 
               LA      SIm 
It was like an age old classic 
    SOL                 RE 
The first time that you saw me 
    LA            SIm          
The story started when you said
     SOL 
 "hello" 
The story started when you said "hello" 
     RE 
In a crowded room a few short years
 ago 
In a crowded room a few short years ago 
LA 
And sometimes there's no proof, you
 just know 
And sometimes there's no proof, you just know 
SIm                      LA 
  You're always gonna be mine 
              SOL 
We're gonna be... 
          RE 
I'm gonna love you when our hair is
 turning grey 
I'm gonna love you when our hair is turning grey 
             LA                     
We'll have a cardboard box of photos
                SIm 
 of the life we made 
We'll have a cardboard box of photos of the life we made 
                    LA           
And you'll say, "Oh my, we really
      SOL 
 were timeless"
And you'll say, "Oh my, we really were timeless"
[Ritornello]
               RE 
We're gonna be timeless 
LA 
Timeless 
SIm                       LA 
  You still would've been mine 
                SOL 
We would've been 
                      RE            
Even if we'd met on a crowded street
       LA 
 in 1944 
Even if we'd met on a crowded street in 1944 
SIm                       LA 
  You still would've been mine 
                 SOL 
We would've been
[Outro]
RE 
 Down the block there's an antique
 shop 
 Down the block there's an antique shop 
    LA                             
And something in my head said stop,
      SOL 
 so I walked in
And something in my head said stop, so I walked in