A (With Love)
By Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers


Tabbed from a Live recording - studio version could be slightly different...


Capo 2


D
Caught in the middle of a teenage love affair
D
Kids get it the worst, you know
D
She was 16, her parents couldn't take her anywhere
D
She'd already started to show
        G D
She had Amy inside of her
G D            D/C#
Amy, you gotta let it go
G   D                D/C#
You think she didn't want you
    Bm        A       D
But how could that be so


The daughter let her hair down just like her mama did
The couple didn't stand a chance
Anything and everything, looking out for God-forbid
But man, could the girl dance
And it was a family
And the family, last time I checked
Was a group of people who give you love
When you least expect


So the parents split-up like the whole Grand Canyon
And the story unfolds some more
You can't please your mother and your father wasn't there for you
And now the brother you adore is saying
"Amy, you used to
Carry me underneath your arm
And maybe your little brother knows
That you can't cover up the scars


Bridge:
D                             G 
And it had nothing to do with you
A          G                  D 
And it had nothing to do with me
           F#m                G
And it had nothing to do with love
                 A                                 G      D
Maybe that's the craziest thing in the whole biography Oh yeah


So, the feelings buried, lit a fuse to the bomb
And the daughter got far away
She always was a fighter with an agony inside her
And you can hear what her daughter says
She says, "Mommy Why are you so angry?
And it's time that you stopped 
blaming me and everybody else
Maybe someday you'll forgive yourself."

And the family 
And the family, last time I checked
Is a group of people who give you love
When you least expect

For this heart that we can not protect
For this heart that we can not protect
I got this love and this great respect
For this heart that we can not protect
Yeah