Baby Teeth

Em  G  Am   C


[Verse 1]
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Your cheap drink tricks and cigarettes keep you locked inside a cage
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Your mother fears you, your father can't hear you, you're money, a voice on a stage
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I still ache from the night that you dragged me, kicking and screaming, out the door
    Em              G             Am                 C
But I won't let go, no, I left my baby teeth in your drawer


[Chorus]
Em           G               Am            C                     Em
  If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
            G               Am               C          Em
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
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If we could stay this way forever would it ever be enough?
            G             Am              C            Em
I wear your bruises on my shoulder now forever and evermore

Em


[Bridge]
     Em                   D                 A                        Am
Your lip got split, spill grenadine kisses, the codeine kids got you down
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Picking fights with the devil you know, you've got a real smart mouth
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Driving you home from the bar and you're touching my face but I don't make a sound
          Em                D                   A                 Am
Lost your baby teeth in the back seat, said somebody knocked them out


[Chorus]
Em           G               Am            C                     Em
  If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
           G             Am                C                Em
If I don't pull myself together this could be the end of it all
            G                Am         C                Em
I hear your voice inside the tv telling me to follow you home
             G               Am                  C                 Em
I taste your teardrops on my tongue at night and it still turns me on


[Verse 2]
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There are things that we will never say, but we know, we know
Em     G               Am                C
  Even baby teeth will hurt you when I'm biting, biting, biting down


[Chorus]
Em           G               Am            C                     Em
  If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
            G               Am               C          Em
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
              G                  Am                C         Em
We could have stayed this way forever but it would never be enough
            G              Am                 C            Em
I wear your ache inside my heart, my dear, forever and evermore