Second Family Portrait

F
  My life started slow
F
  In a town of idle minds
C
  Where daydreams filled the space
C
  Between our simple dramas
F
  And my mom was strange
F
  But she'd always liked to sew
C
  And my clothes smelled like
C
  The room I was born in
F
  And my dad was calm
F
  Never used two words when one'd do
C
  And my brother's hands were 
mischief bent
C
  With no will to stop 'em
F
  And on the whole
F
  We lived simply and day-to-day
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C
  Our fears were trivial
G                  (Pause)
  They always died with every sunset


[Interlude]
F F C G x2

F
  When I was twelve
F
  My affliction came to light
C
  And I was told that some things I 
heard
G
  Were only there in my head
F
  But I couldn't tell
F
  Which were real and which were now
C
  And the question loomed over all I
 did
C
  Whether I could trust it
F
  And I guess over time
F
  It became too much
C
  And I was sent away
C
  At my mom's behest
(Pause)
  'cause she'd grown to fear me

[Interlude]
F F C G x2

F
  Now I live up north
F
  In the house for the broken heads
C
  And my father comes and visits me
C
  Whenever he can afford it
F
  Sometimes at night
A
  When the voices quiet down
C
  I find I hope that I am missed
(Pause)
  And that they haven't forgot me