C  C  F  C

                C                       C
She’ll never know, when she tells you goodnight,
                 F                         C
The fear that you hide, as she lays by your side.
        C                           C
When you stand, all the faults of a man
                    F                             C
Etched right in your face, still she lays there in place.

        Am                      G
How the warmth of the garden you sowed.
                     Am                      G
Is the stuff of these bones, once broken and cold.

           C                          C
And you go home and you sleep in your bed,
                          F                            C
Feel like your dancing in sync with the ghosts in your head.
        Am                          G
And she wakes. You say, “go back to sleep,”
              Am                           G
You dare never say, the greatest secret you keep
                     C                             C
Is that you might be alone, that you might have to run,
                     F                         C
That the rest of your life will be a series of nights
                      Am
That you spend in your mind
                         G
Staring backwards through time
N.C.             C
At something you lost.

C    C   F    C

                    C                     C
And you’ll never be home. You’ll never be one

                   F                    C
Eyes closed in the sun on a warm day in June.
                      Am                       G
But on the damp dirty floor of your wintry cold room,
                        Am                     G
You see her face in the dust. How it fills you up.
N.C.               C      C
And you say “Hello. Hello.
                 F                         C
Please don’t ever leave. Please don’t ever go,
                     Am
And you can call me a man.
                        G
It’s etched right in my face.
                  Am
But it could never span
                      G
the endless expanse of space
                  C
all around us alone.
                        C
And just this one small home,
                   F
One brief moment of time,
                     C
The only thing I call mine
                    Am
is this line that we crossed
                       G
And how it came at the cost
N.C.                 C
Of everything that I lost