Tall Cans

E B C#m A B E C#m A

[Verse 1]
              E                 B
I’m trying to stay awake riding back
 to the park
       C#m                    A
in the trunk of a car in your jacket
 in your arms
E                      B
Nothing smears like my lipstick and 
talking shit
    C#m           A
on tall boys over tall cans in the 
dark

E                          
I’ve never been that good at 
                     B
standing up to the way that people 
treat me but i
C#m                               
sure as hell can tell what you 
  A
mean when you're screaming at me 
that
E                           B
i will never be able to get close to
 anyone
C#m                              
as long as i am unable to admit that
A
 they are hurting me

  E                      B
And i miss you more than i miss home
          C#m                      
let’s set fire to this car and let 
     A
the radiator blow
  E                            B
Meet me on the porch at 3am to stomp
 to death the fear that lives
C#m                               
beneath the floorboards of my 
      A
chest and drown it out in cigarettes

E A B
E B A
E A B
E B A

[Bridge]
E                                 
And i would love to tell you that 
        A
it gets better, and it does get 
better
       B      E           C#m 
but it also gets so much fucking 
    A
worse
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             E                     
and without laundering food stamps 
        A
railing xanax at the beach
     C#m          B            A
that town doesn’t mean shit to me


[Chorus]
B
I’m fighting off sleep riding
 E      B              C#m   A
back to the park in the trunk of a 
car
 E      B
in your jacket in your arms
C#m   A                E     B
Nothing smears like my lipstick
                     C#m     A    
and talking shit on tall boys over
           E    B     C#m   A
 tall cans in the dark


[Verse 2]
 E           B
And i can’t sleep when i’ve got
      C#m     A                E 
somewhere to be like climbing 
     B                   C#m   A
past chain link fences and second 
chances like
B                                 
decolonizing my relationship with 
   E
myself and with my art and
            E         B           
with the capitalist idea i’ve got 
           C#m      A
a responsibility to be productive


[Bridge]
E                                 
And i would love to tell you all 
             A
the pointless shit i did today
       B                 E        
but we haven’t talked in months 
          C#m            A
and we’re a thousand miles away from
             E                     
each others sunburnt bodies,smoking
        A
 spliffs and climbing trees,
     C#m          B            A
at least that’s how i hope you will 
remember me


[Chorus]

B
I’m fighting off sleep riding
 E      B              C#m   A
back to the park in the trunk of a 
car
 E      B
in your jacket in your arms
C#m   A                E     B
Nothing smears like my lipstick
                     C#m     A    
and talking shit on tall boys over
           E    B     C#m   A
 tall cans in the dark

[Verse 3]
E                      B         
But asleep inside that notion of 
C#m           A
femininity as silence,
E                B               
vulnerability or patience 
   C#m           A
literally anything but violence
          E                     
it’s just coercion into pacifism 
      A
like “don’t stand up, bash back, and
 don’t ask questions”
                E        B        
cause you’ll uncover an objective 
            C#m         A
with a more materialist intention


[Other]
E                                 
And i would love to tell you all 
             A
the pointless shit i did today
       B                 E        
but we haven’t talked in months 
          C#m            A
and we’re a thousand miles away from
             E                     
each others sunburnt bodies,smoking
        A
 spliffs and climbing trees,
     C#m          B            A
at least that’s how i hope you will 
remember me

E A B
E B A
E A B
E B A