[Intro]
C#m A F#m E B
[Verse]
G#m
As the months move on, we hardly speak
A F#m C#m
Your hair turns to grey and that heart's growing tired and weak
B
I shoveled the dirt and made a grave for you to sleep in
E A C#m
Because you're dead to me
B A
so take your last breath
C#m G#m B
From the second I awoke to the earth, I was destined to grow without you and suffer
A F#m A
Selfish, reckless and a fiend, you chose that bastard over your family
[Chorus]
A
How can we hope to pick up all the pieces
C#m B
When you're destroying the ground we stand on
A
The drugs that you crave put holes in your brain
E B
and paved the path for the life you hate
A
God damn you for leaving when we needed you
C#m
Hell bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat
E B
and the cancer you breathe, it finally caught up to you
A F#m C#m
Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way
B A
I don't need you to be here at all
[Verse 2]
A
A thousand miles away from home
C#m
but you wouldn't really even know
A C#m
Mother, tell me where you've been, 'cause I can't stop this deafening silence
B G#m A
You don't have the backbone to face the one's you left for your dead
B
You don't have a backbone
G#m A
This is the last time we'll speak so listen closely
[Chorus]
A
How can we hope to pick up all the pieces
C#m B
When you're destroying the ground we stand on
A
The drugs that you crave put holes in your brain
E B
and paved the path for the life you hate
A
God damn you for leaving when we needed you
C#m
Hell bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat
E B
and the cancer you breathe, it finally caught up to you
A F#m C#m
Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way
B E
I don't need you to be here at all
C#m B
I don't need you to be here at all
C#m E B A E B
I tried hard to save you, but you slipped away
A G#m F#m A
I was once your son, now you have no part in what I've become
C#m A F#m A
No forgiveness for the things you say or the choices that took you away
C#m A F#m A C#m
No fighting for a second chance, the earth will turn and you'll be dead
