Capo: 5th fret
[Verse 1]
F Em F
When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags
Em C Bm Em
Thinking, “I wish I could extrapolate some small intention
Bm Em C D
Or maybe just get your attention for a minute or two”
[Verse 2]
F Em
Will I die? Or will I get to that ten-year mark?
F Em
Where I beat the extinction of telomeres?
Dm E7
And if I do, will you be there with me, Father, Sister, Brother?
[Verse 3]
F
Charlie, stop smoking
G
Caroline, will you be with me?
Will the baby be alright?
F G
Will I have one of mine?
F
Can I handle it even if I do?
G
It’s said that my mind
F
Is not fit, or so they said, to carry a child
C Am
I guess I’ll be fine
[Verse 4]
F Dm
It wasn’t my idea, the cocktail of things that twists neurons inside
G
But without them, I’d die
E7 F
They say there’s irony in the music, it’s a tragedy, I
Dm G
See nothing Greek in it
E7
Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, and Dave
F
Who hung himself real high
Dm G G#dim
In the National Park sky, it’s a shame and I’m crying right now
Am E7
To get to you, save you, if I take my life
G D#dim
Find your astral body, put it into my eyes
F
Give you two seconds to cry
G
Take you home, I, I’ll give you a blanket
G#dim Am
Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side
D G
‘Cause, baby, I
E7
Ran through a time when I felt you were doing it
[Verse 5]
F
I couldn’t handle it, I was in Monaco
F
I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone
G
I had to sing for the prince in two hours
G
Sat in the shower
E7 Dm
Gave myself two seconds to cry
Dm G
It’s a shame that we die
[Verse 6]
C
When I was fifteen, naked, next-door neighbors did a drive-by
F C
Pulled me up by my waist, long hair to the beach side
F
I wanted to go out like you, swim with the fishes
C
That he caught on Rhode Island beaches
Em F
But, sometimes, it’s just not your time
[Verse 7]
G E
Caroline, what kind of **** was she to say I’d end up in institutions?
F G C
All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene and sit by
Am F G
The lake, twisting lime into the drinks that they made
E7 F
Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was born in, and died
[Verse 8]
Am G
Aaron ended up dead and not me
C
What the fuck’s wrong in your head to send me away, never to come back?
G E7 F
Exotic places and people don’t take the place of being your child
Fm C
I give myself two seconds to cry
[Verse 9]
Am G
Let it crash over me
Like the waves in the sea
E7 F
Call me Aphrodite
G
As they bow down to me
[Verse 10]
Dm E F G
Sunbather, moon chaser, queen of empathy
E7 F
I give myself two seconds to breathe
G
And go back to being a serene queen
E7 F
I just needed two seconds to be me
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