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