Better Me For You (Brown Eyes)
Recorded by Max McNown
Album: Night Diving (2025)

(Non Capo)

(Intro.)
|(Am) / / / |(C) / / / |(G) / / / |(G) / / / |

(Verse)
(Am) Love was a (C)game I played dealer's (G)choice
In the back of a (Am)bar all (G)summer
(Am) Forgetting (C)names like background (G)noise
In relation-(Am)ships I wanted (G)none of

(Pre-Chorus)
(Am) Went off the (C)rails by fall
(G) Lord knows I needed (Am)savin' (G)
(Am) Wore off the (C)alcohol (G)
And (NC)you were there like an angel waiting

(Chorus)
(NC) I didn't know you'd have (F)brown eyes
(C)Like to pray to Jesus, (G)spending Friday nights at home (Am)
Didn't know you'd be the (F)strong kind
(C)Deeper than a coal mine, (G)lovin' with a heart of gold (Am)
And you're (F)everything that I'm not, (C)everything that I want
(G)There's a God n' baby you're (Am)proof
In those (F)brown eyes, (C) I know that I (G)got to find
(Am) A better me for you (Am) / / / (C) / / / (G) / / / (G) / / /

(Verse)
(Am) Made a living dipping (C)toes in the water
(G) Feelin low with my walls up high
(Am) I was staying far a-(C)way from the deep end
(G) Girl like you made a boy like me try
(Am) Went off the (C)rails that fall
(G) Lord knows I needed savin'
(Am) Made me for-(C)get them all (G) - - -

(Chorus)
And I didn't know you'd have (F)brown eyes
(C)Like to pray to Jesus
(G)Spending Friday nights at home (Am)
Didn't know you'd be the (Am)strong kind
(C)Deeper than a coal mine
(G)Lovin' with a heart of gold (Am)
And you're (F)everything that I'm not
(C)Everything that I want
(G)There's a God n' baby you're (Am)proof
In those (Am)brown eyes (C)
I know that I (G)got to find
A better me for you (F) / (C) Oh, oh, (G)oh /
(Am) Better me for you (F)
(C) Oh, oh, oh, (G)oh (Am)

(Bridge)
Don't (Dm)worry about the miles that it (Am)takes we can make
Every (C)one of them worth all the (G)drivin'
I'll sing your (Dm)praises every way like the (Am)hymnals all say
I could (C)love you til the end of (G) time, and

(Chorus)
(NC) I never knew you'd have (F)brown eyes
(C)Like to pray to Jesus
(G)Spend your Friday nights at home (Am)
Never knew you'd be the (F)strong kind
(C)Deeper than a coal mine
(G)Lovin' with a heart of gold (Am)
And you're (F)everything that I'm not
(C)Everything that I want
(G)There's a God n' baby you're (Am)proof
In those (F)brown eyes (C)
I know that I (G)got to find

(Outro.)
A better me for you, (F) (C) yeah, (G)ahh, ah
(Am) Better me for you, (F) oh, (C) oh, (G)oh
(Am) Better me (F) for you (C) / (G) /
(G) Better me for you - - - - -