G
and I've asked myself a million times 
Am
why didn't just take my sisters and nine
G
and all of the hate we leave behind
C
and all those bottle tears in leaves but
G
remove the velvet from between her vertebrae
Am
and all the holes lead deep inside the
G
sincerely smoldering in her misery
C
slipping from her stomach when she cried

G Am
G C

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all that we hold holding and then this
Am
will slip away or slowly die
G 
melt between us all over the pavement
C
all shivering and sweating and breathing
G
though it makes it at the always happen (?)
Am
hovering the trees with lights
G
and all the arms that have swung around me 
C
like a robins nest with eggs inside of
G
now we go off in search of kindness
Am
through a life willing and beautiful
G
we know we can't take others with us
C                                            G
though a comment on how it feels just like a brother