Key : C
[Verse] 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. F9 F When real death enters the house Em all poetry is dumb. F9 F G When I walk in C G Am to the room where you were F G and look into C C/B F the emptiness instead G all fails. F My knees fail. Am My brain fails. C Words fail. G Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw, F Am I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail. C C/B Am A week after you died a package with your name on it came G F G and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret C G Am G and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed. F E A5 A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now. Bm C G Am You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you G F G though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a C G Am Am/G silence that is bottomless and real. G It’s dumb F and I don’t want to learn anything from this. Am I love you.