WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Elton John & Leanne Rhimes 

Intro:   C  F  C   F  F#  Db  Bb  C

C                 F                      C                 E7
I am here to tell you we can never meet again
Am                Am7       F                        G
Simple really, isn’t it, a word or two and then
    C                   F                          C                     E7
A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
        Am                  Am7                 F
You think of me, or speak of me, or wonder what befell
        Dm                                             G
The someone you once loved so long ago, so well

Never wonder what I’ll feel as living shuffles by
You don’t have to ask me and I need not reply
Every moment of my life from now until I die
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand

Chorus:
C
Is it written in the stars?
             Am
Are we paying for some crime?
           F
Is that all that we are good for?
             G
Just a stretch of mortal time?

            C
Is this God’s experiment
      Am 
In which we have no say
     F        
In which we’re given paradise
       G            C     F  C  F  C
But only for a day?

Nothing can be altered, oh, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no any place to hide
You are all I’ll ever want but this I am denying’
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts I wish I never learned
What it is to be in love and have that love returned

Chorus:
Is it written in the stars?
Are we paying for some crime?
Is that all that we are good for?
Just a stretch of mortal time?

Is this God’s experiment [God’s experiment]
In which we have no say [In which we have no say]
In which we’re given paradise [If only for a day]
But only for a day?

[Is it written in the stars?]
[Are we paying for some crime?]
[Is that all that we are good for?]
[Just a stretch of mortal time?]

Is this God’s experiment [God’s experiment]
In which we have no say (In which we have no say)
In which we’re given paradise (Given paradise)
But only for a day?