Intro
Ab Gm A# Cm A# Gm
My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.
Ab Gm A# Cm A# Gm
Pitiful lullaby, I'll be your lover tonight.
[Verse 1]
Ab A# Gm
My own misery is taunting me.
Cm A# Gm
The air stings my lungs, I can barely see.
Ab A# Gm
Wicked eyes surrounding me, the trees are watching silently.
Cm A# Gm
I could try to run but baby what's the point?
[Prechorus]
Ab A# Cm
I may never know
(I don't see the point.)
Ab A# G
Why I let you go.
[Chorus]
Cm
My body is aching.
(I'm losing my mind!)
D# F Gm
There's nothing to hold onto.
Ab A#
My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.
Cm
I'm tired of trying.
(I'm sick of the waiting!)
D# F Gm
If there's nothing that I can do.
Ab A#
G pitiful lullaby to sing the tortured to sleep
[Verse 2]
Ab A# Gm
We could settle down and change the end.
Cm A# Gm
Nothing but time, start over again.
Ab A# Gm
All the little things you do that make me fall in love with you.
Cm A# G
Have led me to this, a bittersweet abyss.
Ab A# Cm
I may never know
(G vexatious kiss.)
Ab A# G
Why I let you go.
[Chorus]
Cm
My body is aching.
(I'm losing my mind!)
D# F Gm
There's nothing to hold onto.
Ab A#
My angel close your eyes, I'll be your lover tonight.
Cm
I'm tired of trying.
(I'm sick of the waiting!)
D# F Gm
If there's nothing that I can do.
Ab A#
G pitiful lullaby to sing the tortured to sleep
[Bridge]
Cm A# Dm D# Ab A#
I will follow you into the night my darling eyes.
Cm A# Dm D# Ab A# Cm
I would do anything to be lying with you as I watch you ........dream.