D standard tuning G5 Unwanted but breathing In the next room sleeping E5 My mother shes crying And my fathers been drinking G5 In our rundown apartment Where the roof is still leaking E5 Hes cursing and cussing Its just the whiskey talking C5 E5 And Ive got lots of memories like this one C5 G5 Of empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome A5 When I think back to all of it C5 Its all too much Oh its all too much when youre just a little kid G5 E5 G5 My little brother just a newborn baby E5 In the image of my mother says hes a blessing G5 But not to my father oh how he hates him E5 An undeserving mistake He calls him a burden C5 E5 And Ive got lots of memories like this one C5 G5 Of picking sides and picking fights between them A5 When I think back to all of it C5 Well its all too much Well its all too much when youre just a little kid C5 G5 C5 G5 And when I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream C5 G5 C5 G5 One that follows you and haunts you endlessly C5 Yeah haunts me endlessly Well broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating E5 The addiction and the lying and the promise of leaving G5 While my old man was a bastard I admired and loved him E5 And us two kids we were born in to a family not a fortune no G5 E5 G5 E5 G5 E5 G5 E5 end on G5