Benjamin Tod - The Paper And The Ink

Capo: 6th fret

[Intro]
C/G Dm
F G C/G

[Verse 1]
C/G Dm
Your arrow ain’t sharp but age may deadly your aim
F G C/G
If I’ll kill and get killed my dear, would you love me the same
C/G Dm
And as I get older, I realize that time has a way
F G C/G
And the patience you’ve build in your youth will discern how you age

[Chorus]
Dm
And some song I’d swore I’d never sing
Am
From years before I held a dream
Dm
My pages worn like oaths I keep
F G C/G
I’ll die between the paper and the ink

[Verse 2]
C/G Dm
This journal ain’t mine but it’s filled with my misery
F G C/G
Passed down by a friend who was taken too soon to complete
C/G Dm
And bound in the blood of living like we were deceased
F G C/G
Now I live with the debt that it easily could have been me

[Chorus]
Dm
And some song I’d swore I’d never sing
Am
From years before I held a dream
Dm
My pages worn like oaths I keep
F G C/G
I’ll die between the paper and the ink

[Verse 3]
C/G Dm
So lay your head easy, don’t shed tears for me
F G C/G
We are given this life but nobody said it was free
C/G Dm
Oh, ooooh, oooooh, ohohohooo, Ooh
F G Am
Mhhhhh-Mhhhh-Mhhhh-Mhhhh-Mhhh

[Chorus]
Dm
And some song I’d swore I’d never sing
Am
From years before I held a dream
Dm
My pages worn like oaths I keep
F G C/G
I’ll die between the paper and the ink