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FUnwanted, (133211@1)but breathing.
In the next room, sleeping.
DMy (xx0232@1)mother, she's crying and my father's been drinking.
       F (133211@1)                                         FIn (133211@1)our run down apartment, where the roof is still leaking.
DmHe's (xx0231@1)cursing and cussing, it's just the whiskey talking.

Bb (x1333x@1)                               FI've (133211@1)got lots of memories like this one.
Bb (x1333x@1)                                FOf (133211@1)empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome.
Bb (x1333x@1)                                 BbWhen (x1333x@1)I think back to all of it, it's all too much, it's all too much when you're 
just a little kid.

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F (133211@1)                                 FMy (133211@1)little brother, just a newborn baby.
Dm (xx0231@1)                                           DmIn (xx0231@1)the image of my mother, she says he's a blessing.
F (133211@1)                                   FBut (133211@1)not to my father, oh how he hates him.
Dm (xx0231@1)                                      Dm"An (xx0231@1)undeserving mistake." He calls him a burden.

Bb (x1333x@1)                           FI've (133211@1)got lots of memories like this one.
Bb (x1333x@1)                           FOf (133211@1)picking sides and picking fights between them.
Dm7                                   Dm7
When I think back to all of it, it's all too much when you're just a little kid.
BbWhen (x1333x@1)I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream,
Bbone (x1333x@1)that follows you and haunts you endlessly.
FOoh (133211@1)
(only drums and vocals until the Dm)
Broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating,
Dmthe (xx0231@1)addiction, and the lying, and the promise of leaving.
FWhile (133211@1)my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him.
    DmAnd (xx0231@1)Us two kids were born in to a family, not a fortune.

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