G               C
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D|-----0-0h2p0-2-0---2-2-0h2p0-2-0--|
A|-----2-------------3-3------------|
E|---3-3----------------------------|


[Intro]
G C G C

[Verse]
G           C                   G
      I was drunk, I didn't let on
     C                         G
As I stood before your door at dawn
  C                             G
I guess I might have awaken the dogs
            C                             D
Because the shadows started coughing them out


G                 C             G
      So I put my hands into my hair
      C                 G
And I pulled and let it hurt
            C                   G
There was a light going out somewhere
        C                      D
Thought I can hear through the wood

G          C                G
      That held the house together
     C                       G
That kept me out here in the cold
               C                       G
I knew the sun was going to change the weather
          C                       D
But I was looking she never would show

      C                       D
I was jamming my hands in my pockets
           C                        D
And I was thinking about throwing a stone
                 C                     D
But if I had the courage I knew that I lost it
          C                            G
I was too scared        to walk myself home

[Interlude]
G C G C

[Verse]
G        C                     G
      So lit out on a concrete rail
      C                            G
And I made my way through the dead park
        C                      G
I could still here the cicadas wailing
       C                          D
As the morning fog rolled off the dark

G               C                 G
      I had the whole night in my lungs
      C                        G
I was breathing so hard and so fast
   C                          G
I scored one for the catholic girls
      C                          D
And I tried to stuff it all in a box

G                  C                      G
      You know the kind that comes with a key
           C                          G
You can it throw in the lake or bury somewhere
  C                                     G
I thought about the kid you knew before me
    C                                  D
And how he held onto that lock of your hair

G                C                       G
      He kept it tied up in a sad rubber band
         C                                      G
In his dresser drawer on the right side
              C                             G
Now he walks around with strands of you all over him
   C                              D
As if you were still spending the night

      C                       D
I was jamming my hands in my pockets
              C           D
I swear I was zero at the bones
             C                D
If I felt my courage making a come back
      C                              G
I was drunk             I didn't let on

[Interlude]
G C G C

[Verse]
G                  C                           G
      'Cause I was doing like my pa had always done
      C                            G
I was trying to rise back from the dead
           C                              G
Saying all those ghost prayers before the storm
       C                         D
Hoping God won't hit me over the head

G                   C              G
      I guess I was out for a revelation
      C                        G
I was kicking out agaist the darkness
      C                 G
I had dew all over my body
                C               D
From sleeping in a ball under a park bench

         C                       D
I was so sure I would never make it
                   C                   D
I remember like it happened only yesterday
             C                     D
I don't know why I'm still holding onto it
             C                                G
Don't hearts break         nearly every other day

[Interlude]
G C G C (2x)

[Verse]
G              C                         G
      When you try to make the sweetness last
       C                     G
'Cause everything happens so fast
         C                     G
And your waiting with half dry eyes
                 C                             G
For something to fall          or something to rise