Great stuff here by a true master, Sting is truly the best.
Standard tuning (sorry about the mystery notes as I am not sure what they are called.)
Music and lyrics by Sting.
The Book of my life.
Let me [F#m]watch by the fire and remember my days
And it [E]may be a trick of the firelight
But the [B?/D#]flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a [D]book I'm afraid to write
It's the[F#m] book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's [E]cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it's[B?/D#] all there to see as the section reveals
There's[D] some sorrow in every life
If it re[A]ads like a puzzle, a wa[Bm]ndering maze
Then I [F#m]won't understand 'til the [D dim7]end of my days
I'm still [D]forced to remember,
Rem[Bm]ember the words of my life [F?]
(sorry that's it for now more to come)
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
there's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies.
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat,
There's a page where we fail to meet
There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned
There's a chapter on god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
Now the daylight's returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that's left is you
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
Definitions
F#m 244222
E 012200
B?/D# 001202
D XX0232
A 002220
Bm 224432
Ddim7 xx1212
F? 2xxxxx (let ring)
