Intro: D5 B5 G5 The Bm and G are played in quick succession, like the chords in the song. If you choose you could fingerpick the D to make it more like the actual song. D5 B5 G5 all the trees stood like skeletons D5 B5 G5 silhouettes of spilled ink D5 B5 B5 and the snows fell in sheets and got wrapped around our feet B5 A5 we built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door B5 B5 D5 B5 G5 brother's eyes were getting heavier D5 B5 G5 his bony hands cold and white D5 B5 B5 and I could hear his ragged breathing like the wind along a knife B5 A5 G5 there beside him through the night, in the hum of candlelight B5 D5 I no longer felt the time D5 B5 B5 A5 D5 brother woke just after midnight B5 and he didn't make a sound D5 B5 and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head B5 A5 D5 his feet didn't touch the ground G5 I could feel it then A5 a tiny miracle B5 so I followed him D5 into the woods G5 crossed beneath the trees A5 B5 but only I left my prints in tow D5 he was afloat G5 found a lonely tree A5 B5 and tied himself within its limbs D5 and he said to me these words: G5 "don't you fear for me, A5 D5 I am where I'm supposed to be." D5 and when I woke he was gone G5 and I was wrapped in blankets on the lawn B5 B5 the sky was blue and my skin matched the hue G5 and I could hear mother crying in your room A5 from here on out I wear this face for both of us G5 A5 B5 G5 x2 D5 B5 G5 x2 Finish on D.