Standard Tuning
Verse: C5 A5 E5 F5
Biss: C5 D5 F5 F5
Bridge: D5 G5 C5 F5
C5 A5 E5
I give you all my body to take
F5
Take good damn care of it
C5 A5
The taste of salt and water
E5 F5
From my, from my shaking timid lips
C5 A5 E5
I leave you all the things that I've seen
F5
In a box in a public space
C5 A5
So take it, all my memories
E5
They're yours
F5
Hold them close to your face
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
C5 D5
Bring it back
F5
Bring it home
Show me mercy
I'm a horrible man
C5 D5
Stay tight
F5
Just don't go
Lay me down and hold my hand
(same as first verse)
I may never live to explain
How I was made for this bedroom
Feel my baby kicking my mouth
Through the skin of her mother
I pray you never hear my sore voice
You don't need to know what I've done
Just know that I am always around
We both share the same blood
(Chorus)
Bring it back
Bring it home
Show me mercy
I'm a horrible man
Stay tight
Just don't go
Lay me down and hold my hand
D5 G5
Deliver all my goodwill
C5
And my goodwill to my mom
F5
If I die the years before her
Just read this to my brother:
D5 G5
"Be the one to close my eyes
C5
Be the one not to cry
F5
Laugh in my face when I die
D5
I've lived one hell of a life
G5
I've spent some odd years wishing I could share this with you"
(Chorus)
Bring it back
Bring it home
Show me mercy
I'm a horrible man
Stay tight
Just don't go
Lay me down and hold my hand
C5 A5 E5 F5
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
Hold them close
(Chorus)
Bring it back
Bring it home
Show me mercy
I'm a horrible man
Stay tight
Just don't go
Lay me down and hold my hand
Bring it back
Bring it home
Show me mercy
I'm a horrible man
Stay tight
Just don't go
Lay me down and hold my hand