Intro:  G5  B5  G5  B5

G5
A black and white photograph
   B5
of me up the garden path 
G5
wrapped up in my football scarf 
   B5
it sits here in my hand
G5
and there mother smothered me
    B5
and how she would mother me
    G5
she knew how to suffer me 
     B5
like all mothers can
F5          C5
Now she is everywhere
    A5                     G#5
the comb that runs through my hair
Eb5         C5
my posture on a chair
    G5
but that's not who I am


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G5
He ran from the arguments
    B5
and sat on the garden fence
    G5
and lived in the passing tense
     B5
that fell from her lips
G5
he tended the house so well
    B5
and each time she rang his bell
     G5
he'd climb back from where he fell
    B5
and gathered his wits
F5              C5
Now I fear the mold is mine
  A5        G#5
a vibration shakes my spine
Eb5            C5
as I walk the crooked line
  G5
reality hits

CHORUS
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So let me walk free from you
                E5          G5 C5 A5             
I know that you want me to
           E5             G5 C5 A5
let me try something new
             Bb5
let me walk away
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If it's not one thing it's your mother
F5              C5
how I love her how I love her
C5
how I love her
Bb5
but it's not so easy to say
F5            
please won't you let me walk away
       C5                A5
let me walk away let me walk away

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A5
So let me walk on my own
    C#5
and finish my ice cream cone
   E5
if we are to make it home
     B5
then all will be well
A5
look see I'm a father now
    C#5
I'm raising my own eyebrow 
    E5
and being in my own row
    B5
and making life hell
F5              C5
This is me see here I am
A5             G#5
doing the best that I can
Eb5              C5
this life has a subtle plan
    G5
but you couldn't tell

REPEAT CHORUS