Tabbed by: lostpanda Tuning: standard D5 A5 B5 G5 e | ---2---------------------------------------------------------------------- | B | -------2---3---0---------------------------------------------------------- | G | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | D | ---0---------------------------------------------------------------------- | A | -------0---2-------------------------------------------------------------- | E | ---------------3---------------------------------------------------------- | D5 A5 B5 G5 We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest D5 A5 B5 G5 Shedding skin faster than skin can grow D5 A5 And armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives B5 G5 D5 A5 B5 Words to meet and to define and to, but you must know D5 A5 B5 G5 The same games that we played in dirt, in dusty schoolyards D5 A5 B5 G5 Has found a higher pitch and broader scale D5 A5 B5 G5 Than we feared possible, and someone must be picked last D5 A5 B5 And one must bruise and one must fail D5 A5 B5 G5 And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window D5 A5 B5 G5 So we eulogized fondly, we dug deep and threw D5 A5 B5 G5 D5 Its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole A5 B5 G5 D5 A5 And then we rushed out to kill something new, so we could bury that too B5 G5 D5 A5 B5 The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether D5 A5 B5 G5 Pushed towards tired forms of self-immolation D5 A5 B5 G5 That seemed so original, I must, we must never stop D5 A5 B5 G5 Watching the sky with our hands in our pockets D5 A5 B5 G5 Stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut D5 A5 B5 G5 Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows D5 A5 B5 And my voice will scratch to yell many more G5 D5 A5 B5 G5 But before I spill the things I mean to hide away D5 A5 B5 G5 Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment D5 A5 B5 G5 I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty D5 A5 B5 G5 D5 Crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement