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G C
when we're born we're wrapped up in blankets
G C
and baptized in water and shown around town
G C
its a good life just being a baby
G C
looking up occasionally and cooing at strangers
G C
when we live we are creatures of habit
G C
setting the table and stocking the pantry
G C
when we live we are high school bus drivers
G C
and mothers and fighters and losers and fools
C D G C D G
when our parents die we'll be young again
C Gb E Em
nobody's gonna check under my bed
C D G
the day my parents die
G C
we're insured but we're not sure of nothing
G C
tasting those memories of summer camp love
G C
and all the proverbs and fables and wise words
G C
couldn't teach us nothing cause we weren't gonna listen
C D G C D G
but when our parents die we'll be listening
C Gb E Em
there's no sound quite like the empty house
C D G
on the day your parents die
G C
and our minds were once throbbing sponges
G C
testing the air for the last drip of knowledge
G C
and as we grow we are soaked in frustration
G C
only remembering we remembered something once
C D G C D G
when our parents die we'll remember them
C Gb E Em
all the things we wished we would have said
C D G
before the day our parents died