Intro
Gm D# Cm A# F
[Verse]
Dm
As the months move on, we hardly speak
D# Cm Gm
Your hair turns to grey and that heart's growing tired and weak
F
I shoveled the dirt and made a grave for you to sleep in
A# D# Gm
Because you're dead to me
F D#
so take your last breath
Gm Dm F
From the second I awoke to the earth, I was destined to grow without you and suffer
D# Cm D#
Selfish, reckless and a fiend, you chose that bastard over your family
[Chorus]
D#
How can we hope to pick up all the pieces
Gm F
When you're destroying the ground we stand on
D#
The drugs that you crave put holes in your brain
A# F
and paved the path for the life you hate
D#
God damn you for leaving when we needed you
Gm
Hell bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat
A# F
and the cancer you breathe, it finally caught up to you
D# Cm Gm
Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way
F D#
I don't need you to be here at all
[Verse 2]
D#
D# thousand miles away from home
Gm
but you wouldn't really even know
D# Gm
Mother, tell me where you've been, 'cause I can't stop this deafening silence
F Dm D#
You don't have the backbone to face the one's you left for your dead
F
You don't have a backbone
Dm D#
This is the last time we'll speak so listen closely
[Chorus]
D#
How can we hope to pick up all the pieces
Gm F
When you're destroying the ground we stand on
D#
The drugs that you crave put holes in your brain
A# F
and paved the path for the life you hate
D#
God damn you for leaving when we needed you
Gm
Hell bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat
A# F
and the cancer you breathe, it finally caught up to you
D# Cm Gm
Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way
F A#
I don't need you to be here at all
Gm F
I don't need you to be here at all
Gm A# F D# A# F
I tried hard to save you, but you slipped away
D# Dm Cm D#
I was once your son, now you have no part in what I've become
Gm D# Cm D#
No forgiveness for the things you say or the choices that took you away
Gm D# Cm D# Gm
No fighting for a second chance, the earth will turn and you'll be dead