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"I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks"
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Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
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The illusion of protection in the face of a tank
[Chorus]
G#m
You were a student
A#m
You were a soldier
B
You were a symbol
C#
They made you a martyr
[Verse 2]
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
F# B F#
When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
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We're so far past civility it feels useless to argue
[Chorus]
G#m
But love isn't passive
A#m
D# trick or a tactic
B
Tried to call action
C#
So, go let 'em have it
[Bridge]
B F# B F#
When I open my perspective from my fear of the world
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For the daughter I was trying to raise
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With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap
B F# F#/F
I could hear I was the one in my way
B F# B C#
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
F# B F#
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[Verse 3]
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
F# B F#
You said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you
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I love you, I'm sorry, please help me now
F# B F#
I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to
[Chorus]
G#m
Oh, but it saved me
A#m
Oh, but it changed me
B
It shaped and remade me
C#
Oh, what it gave me
[Bridge 2]
B F# B F#
I was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world
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And the daughter I was helping to raise
B F# B F#
With the total sum of everything awake in my lap
B F# F#/F
I could hear what you were trying to say
B F# B C#
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
B F# B C#
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
B F# B C#
You said life is sweet, if I let it be
[Outro]
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
F# B F#
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks