F G Am G C G

[Verse]
F                G
The year moves on without you in it
Am               G
Now it is fall without you
F                                   G
I had to close the windows and doors without you coming through
 Am                               G
I kept them open for as long as I could
  C                G
But the baby got cold
           F           G
I watched the calendar bulldoze

[Instrumental]
F G Am G

     C                                 G
This whole past summer was a lingering heat wave
               F                            G
And I remember late August, our open bedroom window
                                   F
Going through your things with the fan blowing
                            G
And the sound of helicopters and the smell of smoke
        C                                         G                                F
From the forest fire that was growing, billowing just on the edge of town where we used to swim
        G                                           Am
They say a natural, cleansing devastation burning the understory, erasing trails
  G
There is no end
             C
But when I'm kneeling in the heat
                 G
Throwing out your underwear
                       F
The devastation is not natural or good
G
You do belong here
F                  G
I reject nature, I disagree

                     C
In the hazy light of forest fire smoke
                       G
I looked across at the refineries
                     F                             G
And thought that the world was actually constantly ending
                              F                                          G
And the smell and roar of the asphalt truck that was idling just out the window, tearing up our street
C                G
I missed you, of course
                            F                                 G
And I remember thinking the last time it rained here you were alive still
              F                            G
And that this same long heat that I was in contained you
            C                           G
And in this same heat I open the window next to you
             F
On your last morning
             G                             F             G
So you could breathe and then so you could ghost away
                         C           G
And now so the room will hopefully
     F          Em
Stop whispering

    F                     G
The grind of time I'm not keeping up with
    Am                             G
The leaf on the ground pokes at my slumbering grief
F                        G           C
Walking around, severed, lumbering
    Em     F           G
But slowly sovereignty reasserts itself
        Am           G
I don't want it though
        Am          G
And betrayal whines
        Am         G
Who and how could I
Am/F
Live?