is it a wall, is it a well, is it a building or a bridge? sometimes it’s hard for me to tell what fucking structure even is is it a snake in the grass, is it a flower in the weeds? what does it take, what does it ask, what does it give, what does it need? what even is life? just a place to live and die find someone to love and say goodbye? what even is life? call me godless, call me faithless, call me a sinner, call me brainless call me devil, call me rival, point to pages in your bible preach of gold up in the heavens, warn of flames that burn in hell go ahead, pretend to be an expert on shit you don’t know so well what even is life? just a car you don’t know how to drive and you’ll never make it out alive? what even is life? is it kind of arbitrary but a little bit on purpose? time is precious and it’s scary but it’s make-believe and worthless are we ignorant, are we brilliant, are we fixed or are we fluid? are we floating on forever, are we rotting where we’re rooted? what even is life? just a place that we call home live together and die alone? what even is life?
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Verse: C F C G (end on C) Chorus: F C Am Em F G (end on C) you had a big heart that bloomed like a flower you had a smooth voice that sailed like a ship you had a strong spine built like a tower you had a sweet smile just like a kid’s ever yours, ever mine you taught me how to wait until the scar turns to a shine ever green, ever blue the color of my eyes now that they won't be seeing you i had a hard time when you caught that fever i had a long cry alone in my car i had this pipe dream you'd live forever i got this feeling you did not go far ever mine, ever yours our souls outlast the dusty bones of death and dinosaurs ever long, evermore on a scale of one to ten, my friend, i miss you 94 Chorus: Bm slide to D Verse: Bm D // Bm A Bm C don't overthink it, don't overdo it sometimes it's good enough to get up and get through it you don't have to kick every single wall down sometimes it's good enough to get up and walk around what's all this talk of getting on the saddle? what's all this talk of climbing back on the horse? what if the saddle's not compatible? what if the horse threw you off your course? what if the thing that you need currently is to stop indulging worry so repeatedly? question marks circle like sharks in your anxiety but their fins are only figments of the swim you see what's all this talk of persevering, all this outrageous talk of getting ahead? if persevering's too severe today, it was courageous just to get out of bed what if the thing that you need currently is to stop indulging worry so repeatedly question marks circle like sharks in your anxiety but their fins are only figments of the swim you see when I'm naked as the truth and I'm lying next to you i don't want your honor or your honesty I don't need a crystal ball, in fact i don't need facts at all when the night falls please uphold my policy don't want to hear you bad news darling spare me your goodbyes i hate the sound of your hard truth so lay me down in your soft lies take your finest fabrications and spread 'em corner to corner across my bed and tomorrow we can rise from it but tonight won't you lie in it with me? i can see your proof of burden staring at me, oh god it's hurting to feel doubt about the one i love the most and i know seeing is believing so let's just shut the blinds this evening and feel our way around this room with our eyes closed
*pronouns changed from she to he in honor of my friend Jeffrey Joe who I lost the year I wrote this song
everyone’s wearing black everyone looks so sad everyone can be seated now everyone ends up dead everyone bow your head everyone remember was there a time or two or three he had you laughing? was he with you giving tissues when you cried? was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind? did he give you a good story for the day he died? everyone goes to bed everyone ends up dead everyone will live another day everyone still misses everyone reminisces everyone has something to say was there a time or two or three he had you laughing? was there a moment you just had to memorize? was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind? did he give you a good story for the day he died? Capo 1 shapes: Verse: Bm C G Chorus: D C G (guilt get gone Bm C G) you really got a hold on me ooh, you sink your teeth are you ever gonna give me relief? or do i gotta pry myself free? you're wearing out your welcome i don't pretend to know where you really belong i'm sorry for giving you the wrong impression but guilt get gone you really set a still steel trap you and i go way way way back are you ever gonna lift that latch? don't you know i got a life to catch? right this way ma'am to the finish line i was never in your lane, you were never in mine do what you gotta do, girl go get that win did you do it the right way? honey let's not pretend sometimes you must choose to lose with a shrug and a grin come with me friend to the starting line you know i got your back, i hope you still got mine do what we gotta do to begin again i won't fight for a prize but I'll fight for a friend Verse: Amaj7 A7sus2 A6sus4 AM7sus2 // Amaj7 A7sus2 A6sus4 Amaj7 (?) Chorus: Bm7 E Amaj7 // A6sus4 AM7sus2 (?) when the novel becomes a chapter when the chapter becomes a line when the story you’ve been chasing after becomes once upon a time tear it up and let it fly tell it to somebody in the sky punctured or punctuated by the dot above the i when a friendship becomes a footnote when a hug becomes parentheses when the story you thought you wrote becomes whose words were these? ain’t nothing new today ain’t nothing profound to say nothing of consequence achieved nothing that i lost was retrieved but i came home to you and you came home to me that’s more than a lot of folks can say there’s something to being with you at the end of a nothing kind of day ain’t nothing crossed off the list ain’t nothing worth my unclenched fist nothing made work more than a check nothing made my head less of a wreck if i wore all the bells, if i blew all the whistles
if i drew the parallels, if i called my officials would you want me? would you want me? if i cashed a bigger check, if i cooked a better dinner if i slept more or less, if i went to bed a winner would you want me? would you want me? if i lost all the weight, if i started medication if i stopped to meditate, if i understood creation would you want me? would you want me? |
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