Tom: G E Hold C G E Well you can hold your hands together all you please C G E Won’t erase those tender tidings you endured C G E You were just another family member on their knees C G D Just a social work statistic out the door C G D They beat against the tender sidings of your soul C G D With all those pretty little hammers of control C G D And where they are tonight well you will never know C G E But I swear that I will find them now C G E C G E More C G E It’s more than just a simple question of decay C G E More than all those fists that beat into your door C G E It’s more than all the shrinks that told you you’re okay C G D It’s more than anything that I have waited for C G D They beat against the tender sidings of your soul C G D With all those pretty little hammers of control C G D And if they even can remember I don’t know C G E But I swear that they’ll remember now C G E C G BDA K OUT THE MELODICA BOYS E C G x4 E Home C G E It’s just another word you’ll always push away C G E Just a memory you wear outside your clothes C G E And it will burn down into cinders and some day C G D They will burrow down to their parental holes C G D They beat against the tender sidings of your soul C G D With all those pretty little hammers of control C G D And if they’ve ever paid a price well I don’t know C G E But I swear that they will pay one now