G (320003@1)                 Dyou (xx0232@1)drag your tiger's paw across
     C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)your chapped & cracking lips,
      Am (x02210@1)        
and open up a crimson slur
     C (x32010@1)                 G?
you spread each time you kiss.

     Am (x02210@1)                 Em (022000@1)          
the broken boy you bargain with
     C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)               
to turn back to the man
            Am (x02210@1)that you fell in love with once
             C (x32010@1)     
but never saw again.
       G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)                C (x32010@1)       
is he in there? do you think he drowned to death?
       Am (x02210@1)                               Gwell (320003@1)it's his decision to show his face again.
    G (320003@1)               Dyou (xx0232@1)grind your tired teeth
            C (x32010@1)                 G& (320003@1)curse the day that you were born
     Am (x02210@1)                        C (x32010@1)              G?  
to a sunken line of Irish wives a million miles long,
                                          

  Am (x02210@1)           Em (022000@1)             C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)    Gdevoted (320003@1)to the suffering they're certain they deserve.
               Am (x02210@1)     
a husband's a cross to bear,
                  C (x32010@1)             Dworry (xx0232@1)lines & a silver string of hair

        G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1)             Ccome (x32010@1)too early, come to steal your sainted youth..

   Am (x02210@1)                                     G (320003@1)   Dwell (xx0232@1)it's your decision to stay or else to move.

        C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)            D& (xx0232@1)I'm not a man of faith, no gospel oak for me,
        C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)             Dbut (xx0232@1)you wear a crucifix to broadcast your beliefs,
        Am (x02210@1)                   Em (022000@1)       D (xx0232@1)              C (x32010@1) 
and the god I've read about can't go where he's not asked to go.
     
so you've got a choice to make:

shut him out, save yourself, or sit and wait.
           G (320003@1)                           Ambut (x02210@1)you're waiting on a man who will not move.
        C (x32010@1)                                   Gso (320003@1)you must move for him and do what he can't do.
         C?                      C (x32010@1)                 Gcause (320003@1)it's worth it, that's the one life you can change,
          C?                   C (x32010@1)           Gand (320003@1)I'm sorry sister, but it has to end this way.
           C?                   C (x32010@1)             Gyea, (320003@1)it's scary sister, but tomorrow's just too late.
        C?
so stand up sister,
          C (x32010@1)             Gthere's (320003@1)an albatross to shake.


Chords:
  Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)  C?   G?   D (xx0232@1) Em|--0---0---3----3----0----2----0--| (022000@1)|--1---1---0----3----3----3----0--|
|--2---0---0----0----0----2----0--|
|--2---2---0----2----4----0----2--|
|--0---3---2----3----5----0----2--|
|--0---3---3----0----5----X----0--|