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.