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