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