Hey! So this is a simplified acoustic version with nothing too fancy. Capo on 1st fret.
C G
You cut your ties, felt better off.
C G F
Salutations to your son.
C G
Awoke to find you heading out
C G Am
With your white collar undone.
Am
You placed a bar,
G C G F
I played a game to see how low that I could go.
C G F
We develop mental pictures
C G F G C
and we’re following our fathers down the drain.
C
C G C G F
Do you recall the imagery from when I drove you away?
C G
Through others’ rose prescription lens,
C G F
man I’m sorry every day.
C G
because We intersect internally
C G F
and then we take what we have and we run.
C G F
and It all starts to unravel
C G F
until we’re less than we were carrying before.
G
Yes, I expected more.
C
Wake me up.
G
Pictures of you smiling in times
when I just couldn’t be around.
C
Hold me up.
G
Count my rings to see how many winters
I’ve been stuck here under ground.
C G F
Swore I’d not burn out.
F
Digging through the memories
F C
that made you feel alive when you were young.
C G F
You were right to doubt.
C G F
Broken since foundations
F C
in the structures you were building came undone.
C
Part of your charm was
G F
the way you would push me from
C G F
all of the traps that I just couldn’t see.
C G
Figures the one that was there to
F
have tripped you up
C
would be the one
G
was set there
F
by me.
C G F
Wish I was there to say goodbye when you went away.
C G F
Wish I was home but noplace was there.
C G F
I cut off my arm at the bone in solidarity.
C G F
Capital teaches that there’s less when you share.
C G F
I felt the noose tighten up on your collar bone.
C G F
I felt the gun in the small of your back.
C
Engraved in the stone
G F
by request and recurse of friends dead is
C G F
“Tell me again that it’s all in my head.”
He plucks these notes at the very end:
C, G, C, G, F, C, G