(Version performed at the Mark Twain Prize for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but with Capo 1 instead of Capo 2.)

[Intro]
   
   

[Verse]
             
  There is no 

            
combination of

            
 words that I 

      
could put on a

 postcard, and
            
There is no so

           
ng that I coul

              
d sing, I can 

            
try because th

      
is is your hea

rt,

              
And these are 

           
our dreams, an

            
d they are mad

              
e out of real 


things
            
Like a shoe bo

           
x of photograp

            
hs, with sepia

       
-toned lovin'

             
  Love is the 

            
answer at leas

            
t for most of 

              
the questions 

   
in my heart, l

ike
           
  Why are we h

            
ere? Where do 

            
we go? And how

           
 come it's so 

hard?

             
  It's not alw

            
ays easy, and 

            
sometime's lif

           
e can be decei

ving
            
  I'll tell yo

           
u one thing, i

            
t's so much be

              
tter when we'r

    
e together

[Chorus]
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together
            
  Well, look a

       
t them stars w

hen we're toge

ther
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together

[Interlude]
   
   

[Verse]
              
And all of the

             
se moments jus

            
t might find t

              
heir way into 

            
my dreams toni

     
ght,
            
But I know tha

             
t they’ll be g

          
one if the mor

           
ning light sin

gs

              
And brings new

           
 things, for t

            
omorrow night 

       
you'll see
            
That they’ll b

           
e gone, too, t

            
oo many things

            
 I've gotta do

              
But if all of 

             
these dreams m

              
ight find thei

            
r way into my 

         
day-to-day sce

ne
            
I'd be under t

           
he impression 

            
I was somewher

       
e in between

             
With only two,

             
 just me and y

             
ou, not so man

            
y things we go

     
t to do
            
Or places we g

           
ot to be, we'l

            
l sit beneath 

          
the mango tree

, now

[Chorus]
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together
            
  Yeah, somewh

    
ere in between

 together
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together
            
  Yeah, so muc

  
h better when 

we're together

[Interlude]
   
   

[Bridge]
            
  I believe in

   
 memories they

 look so
            
  So pretty wh

     
en I sleep hey

 now and
       
  When I wake 

up
            
You look so pr

              
etty sleeping 

        
next to me, bu

t there is
            
  There's not 

       
enough time, t

here is no
            
  No song I co

    
uld sing, and 

there is no
            
  Combination 

   
of words I cou

ld say
            
But I will sti

              
ll tell you on

  
e thing...we'r

e better toget

her

[Outro]

     
              

          
   So much bet

              
ter when we're

          
 together