EmGAmC
[Verse 1]
EmGAmC
Your cheap drink tricks and cigarettes keep you locked inside a cage
EmGAmC
Your mother fears you, your father can't hear you, you're money, a voice on a stage
GGAmC
I still ache from the night that you dragged me, kicking and screaming, out the door
EmGAmC
But I won't let go, no, I left my baby teeth in your drawer
[Chorus]
EmGAmCEm
If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
GAmCEm
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
GAmCEm
If we could stay this way forever would it ever be enough?
GAmCEm
I wear your bruises on my shoulder now forever and evermore
Em
[Bridge]
EmDAAm
Your lip got split, spill grenadine kisses, the codeine kids got you down
EmDAAm
Picking fights with the devil you know, you've got a real smart mouth
EmDAAm
Driving you home from the bar and you're touching my face but I don't make a sound
EmDAAm
Lost your baby teeth in the back seat, said somebody knocked them out
[Chorus]
EmGAmCEm
If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
GAmCEm
If I don't pull myself together this could be the end of it all
GAmCEm
I hear your voice inside the tv telling me to follow you home
GAmCEm
I taste your teardrops on my tongue at night and it still turns me on
[Verse 2]
GAmC
There are things that we will never say, but we know, we know
EmGAmC
Even baby teeth will hurt you when I'm biting, biting, biting down
[Chorus]
EmGAmCEm
If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you, hold you at all
GAmCEm
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
GAmCEm
We could have stayed this way forever but it would never be enough
GAmCEm
I wear your ache inside my heart, my dear, forever and evermore