Verse
F#m C#m
Was losing all my friends,
B5 A5
was losing them to drinking and to driving.
F#m C#m
Was losing all my friends,
B5 A5
but I got them back.
F#m C#m
I am on the mend,
B5 A5
at least now I can say that I am trying.
F#m C#m
And I hope you will forget
B5 A5
things I still lack.
[Link]
F#m C#m B5 A5 F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
[Verse 2]
F#m C#m
Is it in you now
B5 A5
to bear to hear the truth that you have spoken?
F#m C#m
Twisted up by knaves
B5 A5
to make a trap for fools.
F#m C#m
Is it in you now
B5 A5
to watch the things you gave your life to broken?
F#m C#m
And stoop and build them up
B5 A5
with warn out tools.
[Chorus]
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#5 C#5 A5 B5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
F#m C#m A5 B5
Yeah.
[Post-Chorus]
Arpeggiate: F#m A/E G*
[Verse 3]
F#m C#m
Nothing gets so bad
B5 A5
a whisper from your father couldn't fix it.
F#m C#m
He whispers like a bridge,
B5 A5
it's a river spanned.
F#m C#m
Take all that you have,
B5 A5
and turn it into something you would miss if
F#m C#m
Somebody threw that brick,
B5 A5
shattered all your plans.
[Chorus]
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#5 C#5 A5 B5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
F#m C#m A5 B5
Yeah.
[Bridge]
F#m
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground.
E5 D5
It takes a while to grow anything,
A5 D/C#
Before it's coming to the end, yeah.
F#m
Before you put my body in the cold ground,
E5 D5
Take some time to warm it with your hand,
A5 D/C#
Before it's coming to an end, yeah.
[Post-Chorus]
(Arpeggiate) (Words over octave chords)
D C# B C# A
It's coming to an end, yeah.
D C# B C# A
It's coming to an end, yeah.
[Verse 4]
F#m C#m B5
Do you miss the blend,
A5
Of colors she left in your black and white field?
F#m C#m B5 A5
Do you feel condemned just being there?
[Post-Chorus/Verse]
F#m A/E D5
I am not your friend.
A/C# F#m
I am just a man who knows how to feel.
A/E
I am not your friend.
B7
I'm not your lover.
F#m
I'm not your family.
[Chorus]
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#m C#m B5 A5
Yeah.
F#5 C#5 A5 B5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
F#m C#m A5 B5
Yeah.
[Bridge]
F#m
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground.
E5 D5
It takes a while to grow anything,
A5 D/C#
Before it's coming to the end, yeah.
F#m
Chord Dictionary:
[Verse]
F#m C#m
e|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|--5-----------|
A|--7----5------|
E|-------7------|
[Post-Chorus]
F#m A/E G* (Octave) D5 A/C#
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|--0-----0-----0---------------0-------0--|
D|--5-----5-----5---------------5-------5--|
A|--7-----5-----x---------------3-------2--|
E|--------------3--------------------------|
[Bridge]
D/C#
e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|--------5---------|
D|--------5---------|
A|--------2---------|
E|------------------|