Unraveling

G                    Cadd9
Boxes and baskets of all her old 
things
Em7              Cadd9
Porcelain dolls, portrait paintings
G                  Cadd9          
She swore they'd be worth 
 Em7   Cadd9
something

G                              
They're just gathering dust in my 
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attic somewhere
Em7                               
And she's lost in a room where she
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 sits and she stares
G             C            Em     C
Her mind as blank as the walls
G              C             Em   C
Her memory as vacant as the halls

Chorus:
G            C              Em  
I'm the only daughter of her 
       C
oldest son
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G           C              Em   
I knew her well before her 
         C
spirit was gone
         G            C           
And her life is a thread woven 
   Em           C
into every part of me
        G      C           Em    
She is unraveling, she is 
    C
unraveling

G                        Cadd9
She looks in my eyes and asks me my 
name
Em7                  Cadd9
Every five minutes I tell her the 
same
G                   Cadd9       
She smiles but it's cold and 
Em7   Cadd9
dead
         G             Cadd9   
And I'm screaming out loud in my 
    Em7   Cadd9
head

Chorus repeats

G                   Cadd9
I tried to pull her back
Em               C          
Stories and photographs of her 
    G
children who love her
C
Sisters and brothers
Em                     C         
She can't remember but how could 
            D
a heart forget?

Chorus repeats (G Cadd9 Em C)

          G                        
I've been tearing through boxes on 
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nights I can't sleep
Em                        C      
Searching for memories of who she
            G
 used to be