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A photo essay of a family in mourning
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Perforated ever-so-slightly
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to better let the light seep through
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Sunday traffic clears a path
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We float inches above the road
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Close our eyes and drive so slow
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Like we never need to get home
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To clear the doorstep of flowers
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Throw open the blinds in his empty room
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Avert our eyes from his fingerprints
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Is there something I'm forgetting
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Fall to my knees in the hospital parking lot
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On the way in arms full of branches
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I am dead fall dead fall
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Last time I came here to visit him
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I ran sunburnt through the halls
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My arms full of tiger-lilies
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I don't remember this
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I was told to go home
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Clear the doorstep of flowers
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Throw open the blinds in his empty room
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Avert my eyes from his fingerprints
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Is there something I'm forgetting
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Why when you know you should go
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is it so hard to leave
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Why when you know you should go
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is it so hard to leave
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Why when you know you should go
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Came this far to say goodbye to set things right
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Instead I fiddle with his blankets fetching coffee
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No one will drink
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I am not prepared
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Through the hush of debts and the roar of engines
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We'll struggle to recall
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This is how it ended
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This is how it ends
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Home,
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turn the key in the door and pause
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For what seems like an awfully long time
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There's something I'm both remembering and forgetting
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A name on the tip of my tongue
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Why when you know you should go
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is it so hard to leave
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Why when you know you should go
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is it so hard to leave
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Why when you know you should go
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is it so hard to leave
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Why when you know you should go
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