Capo: 2nd fret


C5                  G5     F5
And I?m a go make my bed 
                   C5
Tuck in the other side 
                       G5    F5
These confessions are mine 
                      C5
But I?ll not claim a word 

C5
This restless parade 
                     F5
Yes I watched it go by
                     C5
Through the cracks in my palm 
                G5
Seen them all gone 
                   C5
Some sequence of lives 

C5
Well she calls out alone 
                      F5
With the pain in her voice 
                   C5
It?s the wound of betrayal 
                     G5
It?s the weapon of choice 

                      C5
Left her heart on display 
                   F5
Though that she?ll deny 
                C5
Two tattoos of skin 
                   G5
One of ice one of tin 
                       C5    C5
For the days have gone by 

   A5        F5            C5
But I ain?t one to reminisce 
     A5       F5                   C5      G5
But close my heart and clench my fists 

                      C5
Now the days swiftly pass 
                        F5
With the chest full of fear 
                      C5
Here the minutes are hours
                     G5
But the moments are years 


                       C5
And old acquaintances passed 
              F5
In trios, in pairs 
                         C5
And if they stay or they go 
                  G5
One struggles to know 
                  C5      C5
One struggles to care 

    A5       F5               C5
But out beyond the Ten Tree walls 
     A5         F5                C5
The wind blows hard the highway crawls 

       A5          F5        C5       G5
And if you should pass the James Hotel 
 A5         C5         G5        F5
Please stop in for I knew you well 
     A5      F5          C5
But that was oh so long ago 
      A5     F5                 C5    G5
And I never learned how to let go 

                            C5                          
But when you fear your own faults 
                         F5
And you?re sick of this life 
                         C5
When you?re reckless of hand 
                   G5
And trembling the knife 
                           C5
And all your doors prefer locks
                        F5
And your death prefers spoons 
                  C5                      G5
Why wouldn?t you wait one last laugh at fate 
               C5    C5
Forever?s too soon 

     A5         F5                C5
But across the field death bell knells 
        A5     F5            C5         
Listen close hear the toll tell 

   A5       F5       C5       G5
To run and tell my darling true 
    A5        C5
My breath is short 
    G5        F5
My days are few 
    A5         G5
So please come down 
     F5       G5
And take my hand 
    A5      G5
My last demand 
     A5     F5                C5
And lead me to some slender rest 
     A5         F5             C5   G5
And please dismiss what I confess 

Outro: C5 F5 C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 G5 A5 C5 G5 F5 A5 G5 F5 G5 A5 G5 A5 F5 C5 A5 F5 C5 G5 C5