G 
and I've asked myself a million times  
Am 
why didn't just take my sisters and nine 
G 
and all of the hate we leave behind 
C 
and all those bottle tears in leaves but 
G 
remove the velvet from between her vertebrae 
Am 
and all the holes lead deep inside the 
G 
sincerely smoldering in her misery 
C 
slipping from her stomach when she cried 

G Am 
G C 

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all that we hold holding and then this 
Am 
will slip away or slowly die 
G  
melt between us all over the pavement 
C 
all shivering and sweating and breathing 
G 
though it makes it at the always happen (?) 
Am 
hovering the trees with lights 
G 
and all the arms that have swung around me  
C 
like a robins nest with eggs inside of 
G 
now we go off in search of kindness 
Am 
through a life willing and beautiful 
G 
we know we can't take others with us 
C                                            G 
though a comment on how it feels just like a brother