Tom: Em
C E C Em
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i watched you pull the chain on your belt while you
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lied to me
C
i listened to you tell your friends about
E Em
when you were seventeen
C
you reminded me of your
E
father, a coward and a shame
C
i wanted to hold you but i knew
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i should restrain
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i tried to fill the silences
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by forgetting about the past
Cm
and as we got high i
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tried to make you laugh
Cm
i hope you felt some sort of
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fire in your chest
Cm
i wonder if you felt anything
D
when i left
but it doesn’t
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matter, it doesn’t
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matter if you don’t care, i’ll still
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love you with everything i’ve
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got. it don’t
C
matter, it don’t
E
matter if you don’t love me
Cm
‘cause you’re the first to ever
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try
otto, i miss
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you
otto, i miss
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you
otto, do you
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ever think of me?
otto, you’re
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always on my mind
i was going to tell you on the way to the
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airport
no matter how much my teeth or
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tongue hurt
no matter how my throat burned or my
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gums bled
but my jaw locked and i stayed
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silent
D#
and on the plane ride home i
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ate myself alive
C
in front of the strangers sleeping
D
next to me, i cried
Cm
i read your letter
D
again when i got home
Cm
i put it in a drawer, and
D
drowned myself in the bathtub
but it doesn’t
C
matter. it doesn’t
E
matter if you don’t care
i’ll find
C E
people like you and love you through them
C
it don’t matter, it don’t matter if
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you don’t think of me anymore
C
i’ll kiss my lori’s lips through
Cm D# C D C
someone who reminds me of you
x2:
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otto, i miss you
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otto, i miss you
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otto, do you ever think of me?
Em E C
otto, i miss you
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and otto, i love you
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my otto, i love you, still
