Real Death Cifras para ukulele

[Verse 1]
          C
Death is real
            G
Someone's there and then they're not
                   F
And it's not for singing about
              G
It's not for making into art
      F                                Em
When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb
     F      G         C     G        Am
When I walk into the room where you were
      F  G        C     G       F
And look into the emptiness instead
     G
All fails
          F
My knees fail
          Am
My brain fails
       C
Words fail
 
[Verse 2]
  G
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw
  F                                           Am
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
   F
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
      G           Dm                            G
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
         C                   Em            Am   C G
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
   F                     Em                      Am
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
                              F                                          Am
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you
             G                           F
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
        G                C             Em              Am
Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real
 
[Outro]
      G
It's dumb
                      F
And I don't want to learn anything from this
   Am
I love you
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