Key : Bb
[Intro] Bb C Gm [Verse] Bb C Gm I can't get the image out of my head F Gm Of when I held you right there Bb F And watched you die Bb C Gm Upstairs in the back bedroom of our house Gm Where we have lived for many years F Gm Your last gasping breaths Bb F I see it again and again Bb C Gm As the breeze blew in F Gm The room I still don't go in at night Bb F Because I see you Bb C Your transformed, dying face will recede with time Gm Is what our counselor said F Gm Who we walked to every Monday, holding hands Bb F Slower every week with your breathing Gm Until we had to drive Bb C But then only two months after you died Gm Our counselor died F Gm All at once, her empty office with no light on Bb F As if her work was done Gm Am Bb C We are all always so close to not existing at all Gm Am Bb C Except in the confusion of our survived-bys grasping at the echoes Bb C Gm Today our daughter asked me if mama swims F Gm I told her, "Yes, she does Bb And that's probably all she does F Now." Gm Am Bb What was you is now borne across waves C Evaporating