D
I've asked myself a million times
Em
why didn't just take my sisters that night
D
and all of the hate we leave behind
G
and all those bottled tears you leave
D
remove the velvet from between her vertebrae
Em
and all the holes lead deep inside us
D
sincerely smoldering in her misery
G
slipping from her stomach then she cried
D Em
D G
D
all that we hold holding and then this
Em
will slip away or slowly die
D
melt between us all over the pavement
G
all shivering and sweating and breathing
D
though it makes it as the always happen (?)
Em
hovering the trees with lights
D
and all the arms that have swung around me
G
like a robins nest with eggs inside
D
now we go off in search of kindness
Em
through a life willing and beautiful
D
we know we can't take others with us
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though a comment on how it feels just like a brother