You Can't Take It Back

[D] [G] [D] [A]

[D]There she was just seventeen
[G]Cryin' on the mornin' after
[D]  He told her everything she [A]wanted to hear

[D]All those drunken reasons that she [G]had
For givin' in don't matter
[C]    And they don't stop the [F#]tears noooo

[D]   What do you do when it's too [G]late
What do you say when you can't [Bm]change the truth
Of what you've do[A]ne
And it's coming at you [D]fast
When you can't hide the hurt in[G]side
How do you pray to make it[Bm] right
When you wanna change the [A]past
And you can't take it [D]back
[G]  You can't take it [D]back
[A]

[D]Scared to death she tells her friend
To [G]meet her at the drugstore counter
[D]    And finds out what she didn't [A]wanna hear
[D]Daddy will die
Her mamma will cry
The [G]kids at school will talk about her
[C]     There ain't no easy [F#]way outta here oh

[D]   What do you do when it's too [G]late
What do you say when you can't [Bm]change the truth
Of what you've do[A]ne
And it's coming at you [D]fast
When you can't hide the hurt in[G]side
How do you pray to make it[Bm] right
When you wanna change the [A]past
And you can't take it [D]back

[G] [D] [G]

[D]All the choices
[G]That she's made
That [Bm]baby staring back at her
Is [A]one she wouldn't change  [A]

[D]   What do you do when it's too [G]late
What do you say when you can't [Bm]change the truth
Of what you've do[A]ne
And it's coming at you [D]fast
When you can't hide the hurt in[G]side
How do you pray to make it[Bm] right
When you wanna change the [A]past
And you can't take it [D]back
[G]  You can't take it [D]back

What do you do when it's too [G]late
What do you say when you can't [Bm]change the truth
Of what you've do[A]ne
And it's coming at you [D]fast
When you can't hide the hurt in[G]side
How do you pray to make it[Bm] right
When you wanna change the [A]past
And you can't take it [D]back
[G]

[D]   Sometimes it ain't[A] so bad