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