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