Tom: C
C F Am F
So near asleep I hear your breath:
C F Am F
the root of living in your chest.
C F Am F
It is the fact that you are here.
C F Am F
It is the proof that you are here.
C F
What’s done should just be done.
Am F
Don’t talk just use our lungs.
C F Am F
The brains that your dad said you had,
C F Am F
you lost them. Terrified of our potential,
C F Am F
and all the ways we might fail to meet it.
[Chorus]
F G
‘Round here we are all the same,
G F
we want sleep with no bad dreams
Am G
in our own bed with heat
G F C
from somebody who won’t keep me awake.
[Interlude]
C F Am F (x2)
[Verse 2]
C F Am F
The simplest act is still the one
C F Am F
that we’ll remember when we’re done.
C F Am F
The last thing I hope I forget,
C F Am F
when everything else starts to slip,
C F Am F
is sleeping over your parents’ bedroom.
C F Am F
We’d turned 18 not long ago.
C F Am F
The open window had made it so cold.
C F Am F Am
For me you shut it, then came back to bed.
[Interlude]
Am G F G (x2)
[Chorus]
F G
‘Round here we are all the same,
G F
we want sleep with no bad dreams
Am G
in our own bed with heat
G F Am
from somebody who won’t keep me awake.
G
So nothing risked is nothing gained.
G F
It’s the surest way to stay safe.
Am G
Afraid to spell out the ways
G F
that we think we could help each other.
Am G
So lay next to me tonight.
G F
Though I may not be satisfied
Am G
I will stay by your side
G F Am
and be company ‘til the morning light.
