[Verse 1]
F# G# C#
January came and took my heart away
C# D#m C# G# F#
Feb-ru-a-ry felt the same
Fm D#m C#
March, my hugs became hold ons
C# G# F#
April, I huffed like porridge on the boil
F# G# C#
Morning May, I'm downwind from your shampoo
C# D#m C# G# F# D#m
Ichi, ni, san, go, roku, nana, hachi, kyuu, jyuu
C# G# F#
June, I learned to count to ten in Japanese
F# G# C#
Dry July, like wiping skin from my skull
C# D#m C# G# F#
Instead, I visited family
Fm D#m
They told me I'm special
G# F#
Hmm
[Verse 2]
F# G# C#
Augustus came and stabilised me with my father's pain
C# D#m C# G# F#
Relieving drug, diazepam
Fm D# C#
Life floats away
C# G# F#
October, I swam back for my birthday
F# G# C#
Firework display in a cafeteria of my old school
C# D#m C# G# F# Fm D#m
Happ-i-er my cold, black sleep in my cold, deep bed
C# G# F#
December, you sang at my funeral
[B-section]
C#/G# A#m C# G#
If it's depths to your rivers, I've picked one for you
C#/G# A#m C# G#
Oh, greedy with Ss but equalled by Is
C#/G# A#m C# G#
If it's stones for your pockets, I've collected a few
C#/G# A#m
To hold you down
C# G#
To hold you down
[Chorus]
F# G# C# F#
Mississippi, come back to me
F# G# C# F#
Oh, Mississippi, your cold, black sleep
F# G# C# F#
Oh, Mississippi
C# G# C#
Oh, oh, oh
[Break]
C#/G# A#m C# G#
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[Chorus]
F# G# C# F#
Mississippi, come back to me
F# G# C# F#
Come, Mississippi, from your cold, black sleep
F# G# C# F#
Oh, Mississippi
C# G# C#
Hmm
C# G# C#
Hmm