G                             Em
Good morning to the empty street:
         C                   G
I'm like a dresser full of leaves
    C       D      G
My eyes as dry as dust
  G                       Em
There is a curtain in my mouth
          C                G
It opens and a song comes out
      C        D  G G/F# Em
I've sung the loneliest words
        C                  D
Words into your listening stones
 G     G/F#      Em
Moss curled and songs
                   C                D
Have twirled their tunes around your bones

[Verse 2]
  G                          Em
Good morning Uncle with your pen
         C               G
The furniture was born again
     C          D         G
At night while you slept in
 G                             Em
The room it wrapped around your body
       C                  G
Double pillows held your head
  C            D        G G/F# Em
I watched your shrinking skin
Em             C                   D
And all the lines that fill your face
G G/F# Em    C                 D
I-iii-iii-n were falling into space
  D                          G
There is a light that is so dim
       G/F#              Em
And a hand that pulls you in
C               G        D
When you can't swim anymore
D                               G
The freezing water fills your lungs
 G              D                    Em
The weight of waves surrounds your skin
         C             G             D
And the outside comes all the way in

[Verse 3]
  G                             Em
Your heart is held inside this box
           C              G
And we've got to turn it off
     C          D
So please don't be afraid
 G                           Em
The love you gave us will go on
                C                    G
We'll hold your memory when you're gone
      C         D      G G/F# Em
Your self just can't be saved
Em             C                           D      G G/F# Em
So close your eyes and I'll turn off your heart
Em            C           D
Watch the sick room fall apart
  C                     D         G G/F# Em
This machine's counter restart
Em          C
If I could hold your open
 G            D
Never-broken heart
  D                             G
I would have held it from the start