Transpose up
(VER 1)
When
A#
I look back
Am
Tracing fingertips over pl
A#
astic
bags
Am
Thinking
“I wish I
F
could
extra
Em
polate some small in
Am
tention
Or
Em
maybe just get your a
Am
ttention
For a minute
F
or
G
two”
(VER 2)
A#
Will I die? Or will I get to that
Am
ten-year
mark?
Where I
A#
beat the extinction of t
Am
elomeres?
And
Gm
if I do, will you be there with me
Father,
A7
Sister,
Brother?
(VER 3)
A#
Charlie, stop smoking
Caroline, will you be
C#
with
me?
Will the baby be alright?
Will I
A#
have one of m
C
ine?
Can I
A#
handle it even if I do?
It’s said that
C
my
mind
Is not fit, or so they said, to
A#
carry a child
F
I guess I’ll be
Dm
fine
(VER 4)
It wasn’t my
A#
idea
The cocktail of things that twists neurons in
Gm
side
But without them, I’d
C
die
They say there’s irony in th
A7
e
music
It’s a tragedy,
A#
I
See
Gm
nothing Greek
C
in
it
Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with Dad
Grandma, Grandpa, and
A7
Dave
Who hung himself real
A#
high
In the Nation
Gm
al
C
Park
sky
It’s a shame and I’m crying right
C#dim
now
To get to
Dm
you, save you, if I take my
A7
life
Find your astral body, put it
C
into my arms
Give you two seconds to
A#
cry
Take you home,
C
I, I’ll give you a blanket
Your spirit can sit and watch
C#dim
TV by my
Dm
side
‘Cause, baby,
G
I
C
Ran through a time when I felt you were
A7
doing
it
(VER 5)
A#
I couldn’t handle it, I was in Monaco
A#
I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone
C
I had to sing for the prince in two hours
C
Sat in the shower
Gave myself two
A7
seconds to
Gm
cry
It’s a s
Gm
hame that we
C
die
(VER 6)
When I was fifteen, naked
next-door neighbors did a
F
drive-by
Pulled me up by my waist
long
A#
hair to the
F
beach
side
I wanted
A#
to go out like you, swim with the fishes
That
F
he caught on Rhode Island beaches
But, sometimes, it’s
Am
just
A#
not your time
(VER 7)
Caro
C
line, what kind of mother was she to say
I’d end up in insti
A
tutions?
All
A#
I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Gr
C
eene and sit b
F
y
The
Dm
lake
Twisting
A#
lime into the drinks that
C
they
made
Have a babe at sixteen
In the town I was
A7
born in, and
A#
die
(VER 8)
Aaron
Dm
ended up
C
dead and not me
What the f**k’s wrong in your head to
F
send me away
Never to come back?
Exotic p
C
laces and people
Don’t take the place
A7
of being your
A#
child
I
A#m
give myself two seconds to
F
cry
(VER 9)
Let it
Dm
crash over
C
me
Like the waves in the sea
Call me Aphrod
A7
ite
A#
As they
C
bow down to me
(VER 10)
Gm
Sunbather,
A
moon chaser,
A#
queen of empa
C
thy
I give myself two
A7
seconds to b
A#
reathe
And go back to being a serene
C
queen
I just needed two seconds to
A7
be
A#
me
