Broken Benches

    D
Sometimes broken benches are the 
only place to sit
                         G
and while our hearts capsized in our
 chests
                     D             
my mom clutched a cell phone and 
             A
was screaming into it
                         G
tears streaming from the new 
sunglasses

    D
yea, 17 years of misery and all 
we've got to show
           G             D
are these hearts divided by
A
weekend visitations and strained 
family relations
G
thank god we saved our tears till 
bed time

[Verse 2]
   D
somewhere between ventricles a part 
of my heart
        G                          
broken so many times it didn't even
 D
 hurt that much
          A
when you packed it in an overnight 
bag along with enough clothes
    G
to last you downtown till you could 
find a place of your own

     D
but all of that was last February 
and we're so much warmer now
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                   G          D
atleast until the phone rang today
A
your eyes accused and his mouth 
abused
          G
until you walked out of earshot so 
my little brother won't be

D
writing songs about it when he gets 
to be my age
           G                     D
it must be so much harder for him
           A
cuz you're his shining light and 
while I'm just cynical and sad
G
he's still, so fragile

[Bridge]
(muted)
D
things we said in vain just to 
salvage peace when we're alone
    G                              
the tears we shed until the pain 
                       D
was dead and this house was finally 
a home
    A                              
and all along you sang a song with 
                     G
words we never knew
G
yea it hurt so much to harbor but it
 was what we had to do

D
and I'll go off to college and just 
try to carry on
    G
and you can't pretend that you wont 
bend
           D
before you break when we're all gone
           A
my father, shouted explanations for 
why it all went down the drain
           G
can't hold a candle to the handle

I've gotten to what it's like to 
break the chains

[Otro]
(strum once)
   D       A        G
of lowered expectations
           D             A        
and family trees chopped limb from 
G
limb
             A
and it's all broken
         A
it's all broken
     D             A              
but, atleast now I've got some 
   D
place to begin

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