Verse
A#m Fm
Was losing all my friends,
D#5 C#5
was losing them to drinking and to driving.
A#m Fm
Was losing all my friends,
D#5 C#5
but I got them back.
A#m Fm
I am on the mend,
D#5 C#5
at least now I can say that I am trying.
A#m Fm
And I hope you will forget
D#5 C#5
things I still lack.
[Link]
A#m Fm D#5 C#5 A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
[Verse 2]
A#m Fm
Is it in you now
D#5 C#5
to bear to hear the truth that you have spoken?
A#m Fm
Twisted up by knaves
D#5 C#5
to make a trap for fools.
A#m Fm
Is it in you now
D#5 C#5
to watch the things you gave your life to broken?
A#m Fm
And stoop and build them up
D#5 C#5
with warn out tools.
[Chorus]
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#5 F5 C#5 D#5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
A#m Fm C#5 D#5
Yeah.
[Post-Chorus]
Arpeggiate: A#m C#/G# G*
[Verse 3]
A#m Fm
Nothing gets so bad
D#5 C#5
a whisper from your father couldn't fix it.
A#m Fm
He whispers like a bridge,
D#5 C#5
it's a river spanned.
A#m Fm
Take all that you have,
D#5 C#5
and turn it into something you would miss if
A#m Fm
Somebody threw that brick,
D#5 C#5
shattered all your plans.
[Chorus]
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#5 F5 C#5 D#5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
A#m Fm C#5 D#5
Yeah.
[Bridge]
A#m
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground.
G#5 F#5
It takes a while to grow anything,
C#5 F#/F
Before it's coming to the end, yeah.
A#m
Before you put my body in the cold ground,
G#5 F#5
Take some time to warm it with your hand,
C#5 F#/F
Before it's coming to an end, yeah.
[Post-Chorus]
(Arpeggiate) (Words over octave chords)
F# F D# F C#
It's coming to an end, yeah.
F# F D# F C#
It's coming to an end, yeah.
[Verse 4]
A#m Fm D#5
Do you miss the blend,
C#5
Of colors she left in your black and white field?
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Do you feel condemned just being there?
[Post-Chorus/Verse]
A#m C#/G# F#5
I am not your friend.
C#/F A#m
I am just a man who knows how to feel.
C#/G#
I am not your friend.
D#7
I'm not your lover.
A#m
I'm not your family.
[Chorus]
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#m Fm D#5 C#5
Yeah.
A#5 F5 C#5 D#5
Yeah, yeah. (Oh.)
A#m Fm C#5 D#5
Yeah.
[Bridge]
A#m
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground.
G#5 F#5
It takes a while to grow anything,
C#5 F#/F
Before it's coming to the end, yeah.
A#m
Chord Dictionary:
[Verse]
A#m Fm
e|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|--5-----------|
A|--7----5------|
E|-------7------|
[Post-Chorus]
A#m C#/G# G* (Octave) F#5 C#/F
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|--0-----0-----0---------------0-------0--|
D|--5-----5-----5---------------5-------5--|
A|--7-----5-----x---------------3-------2--|
E|--------------3--------------------------|
[Bridge]
F#/F
e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|--------5---------|
D|--------5---------|
A|--------2---------|
E|------------------|