D standard tuning (DCGFAD)
[Intro]
G D/F Em D/F
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)
[Verse 1]
G
Unwanted, but breathing
In the next room, sleeping
D/F Em
My mother, shes crying
And my fathers been drinking
D/F G
In our run-down apartment
Where the roof is still leaking
D/F Em
Hes cursing and cussing
Its just the whiskey talking
[Chorus 1]
D/F Cadd9 Em
And Ive got lots of memories like this one
Cadd9 G
Of empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome
Am
When I think back to all of it
Cadd9
Its all too much
Oh its all too much when youre just a little kid
[Bridge]
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)
[Verse 2]
G
My little brother, just a newborn baby
D/F Em
In the image of my mother, says hes a blessing
D/F G
But not to my father, oh how he hates him
D/F Em
An undeserving mistake, He calls him a burden
[Chorus 2]
D/F Cadd9 Em
And Ive got lots of memories like this one
Cadd9 G
Of picking sides and picking fights between them
Am
When I think back to all of it
Cadd9
Well, its all too much
Well, its all too much when youre just a little kid
[Bridge]
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And when I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream
Cadd9 G Cadd9
One that follows you and haunts you endlessly
G
Yeah, haunts me endlessly oh
[Verse 3]
Well, broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating
D/F Em
The addiction, and the lying and the promise of leaving
D/F G
While my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him
D/F Em
And us two kids, we were born in to a family, not a fortune, no
[Outro]
G D/F Em D/F
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)