Artist: RMS Olympic
Song: To Keep You From Giving Up
Album: Old Reliable
Bandcamp: https://rmsolympic.bandcamp.com/track/to-keep-you-from-giving-up
Am Fmaj7 C C
I worry I might never cure myself of this disease
Am Fmaj7 C C
It's an action I rely on to keep my troubled mind at ease
Am Fmaj7 C C
I know this bottle was supposed to just be celebratory
G Am Fmaj7 Fmaj7
But the pills won't seem to put me to sleep
Am Fmaj7 C C
And I can even see concern now in the face of my dear dog
Am Fmaj7 C C
She is usually more preoccupied with her food and her bi-daily walks
Am Fmaj7 C C
Wants to bark at her rival in apartment 13
G Am Fmaj7 Fmaj7
But tonight she won't stop staring at me
[Refrain]
Fmaj7 G Am Am
"Why must you do this to yourself?
Fmaj7 G Am Am
Don't you know if you go I've got nobody else?
Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7
What would I do without you? Isn't my love enough
Fmaj7 G Am
To keep you from giving up?
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I traded my home town for this cage
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Everyone here is an inmate of inconsolable rage
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Mutilating our bodies to watch our old selves fade away
G Am Fmaj7 Fmaj7
Plagiarizing just to fill up the page
Am Fmaj7 C C
I was blinded by youth at the time
Am Fmaj7 C C
I tried my best to see you through the tears that were forming in my eyes
Am Fmaj7 C C
My heart was breaking in my chest so I could barely hear you say
G Am Fmaj7 Fmaj7
"I'm sorry that it has to be this way"
[Refrain]
Fmaj7 G Am Am
"Why must you do this to yourself?
Fmaj7 G Am Am
Don't you know if you go I've got nobody else?
Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7
What would I do without you? Isn't my love enough
Fmaj7 G Am
To keep you from giving up?
[Solo]
Am Fmaj7 C C
Now my glasses are fogged up again
Am Fmaj C C
I guess I still blame you for leaving me alone with this fucking ball point pen
Am Fmaj7 C C
And nothing but time to keep reliving that night
Am Fmaj7 C C
On the front yard of that yuppy house we had our last fight
Am G
Where you said "You can't help destroying everything that you touch"
C G
And I said "Please don't abandon me like everyone else I ever loved!"
Fmaj7 G
And you said "Each day you kill yourself and I can't lie down and die with you
Am G
My dear Nathanael, I still love you I just don't know what else to do
Fmaj7 G Am Am
Can't you see that I'm going through hell?
Fmaj7 G Am Am
But I'll have to be strong and rely on myself
Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 Fmaj7
'Cuz I know now my love will never ever be enough
Fmaj7 G Am Am
To keep you from giving up
Fmaj7 G Am Am
To keep you from giving up
Fmaj7 G Am Fmaj7
To keep you from giving up"
C C Am Fmaj7 C