G Bm C G Em Am C D (Play the D as 5222)
G Bm
In a nightmare I am falling from the
C G Em
Ceiling into bed beside you
Am
You're asleep I'm screaming
C D
Shoving you to try to wake you up
G
And like before you've got no
Bm C G Em
Interest in the life you live when you're awake
Am C
Your dreams still follow storylines
D
Like fictions you would make
G Bm
So I lie down against your back
C G Em
Until we're both back in the hospital
Am C
But now it's not a cancer ward
D
We're sleeping in the morgue
G Bm
Men and women in blue and white
C G
They are singing all around you
Em Am C
With heavy shovels holding earth
D
You're being buried to you neck
G Bm
In that hospital bed
C G Em
Being buried quite alive now
Am C
I'm trying to dig you out
D
but all you want is to be buried there together
Chorus:
Am G
You're screaming and cursing
Am G
And angry and hurting me
Am G
And then smiling and crying
D
Apologizing.
G Bm
I've woken up I'm in our bed
C G Em
but there's no breathing body there beside me
Am C D
Someone must have taken you while I was stuck asleep
G Bm
But I know better as my eyes adjust
C G Em
you've been gone for quite awhile now
Am C
And I don't work there in the hospital
D
they had to let me go
G Bm
When I try to move my arms sometimes
C G Em
they weigh too much to lift
Am C
I think you buried me awake
D
my one and only parting gift
G Bm
But you return to me at night
C G Em
just when I think I may have fallen asleep
Am C
Your face is up against mine and
D
I'm too terrified to speak
Chorus:
Am G
You're screaming and cursing
Am G
And angry and hurting me
Am G
And then smiling and crying
D
Apologizing.
Am G
You're screaming and cursing
Am G
And angry and hurting me
Am G
And then smiling and crying
D
Apologizing.