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