Key : C#m
[Verse 1]
C#m
G#m A
It's almost Mother's Day
E G# F#m
Me and the other widows will commiserate
C#m A E
Alone at Montessori again
G#m F#m
Straddling two worlds
C#m G#m A
Between the crush of single parenting
E
And the need for wailing in the woods
F#m
Around a slash pile burning
C# G# F#m
Into the night with tear crusted eyes
E F#m
[Verse 2]
C#m A
I know I'm overcompensating
E G# F#m7
In this PTSD disorientation
C#m7 G#m A
From my brief time in the rich part of the city
E G#m
Now my hands stink like salmon skin
F#m
Left out in the rain in the ash
C#5 G#5
Of the fire from last night
F#m5
I haven't bathed in a while
E
And no one's near me
[Verse 3]
G#m F#m
(If there's significance in where you live
C#m G#m F#m
Let it all go and follow love and intuition)
E G#m F#m
Today the tabloids told the world you separated me
(And see what's there)
C#m G#m A
My phone began dinging more than usual
(In the open sky)
E G#m F#m
It was just like the day they found out that we'd gotten married
(Because we're all gonna die)
C#m B
Unwanted attention
A E G# F#m
From an inhumane delirious absurd other world that keeps trying to eat you
A
[Verse 4]
C#m G#m7 A
I woke up quivering, raw, and heartbroken again
E G#m
Took my daughter to the garbage dump
F#m
And rifled through the free pile
C#m G#m
And stood next to the pit
A E G#m
The crows and ravens circling spoke to us
F#m C#m G#m
And we spoke back to them
A
But nothing is real
E G#m F#m
Except this one thing
[Outro]
C#m B A C#m B
Please remember at the bookstore in the poetry corner upstairs
A
I slept with my head on your lap