Intro
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Then: A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
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Soak up all the strain and cast out all your old complaints.
A#5 A#5/A
She didn't work this hard to give up and let death stake a claim.
G5 D#5
20 years, 1 month and 27 days.
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Is this all she gets?
A#5 A#5/A
A striking realisation that the cross she had to bear wasn't half as
G5 D#5
heavy as the burden that now hangs around her neck.
A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
I won’t miss this when it's gone.
A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
I won’t miss this when it's gone.
A#5 A#5/A G5
What is there to say? Another fumbled consolation cuts the air
D#5
but seems to fail in every way.
A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
You can't sum up in two lines the cost to a mother that outlives her child, so why bother.
A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
Is this all she gets?
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A solemn promise that times a great healer,
G5 D#5
from someone that could never understand quite how much that she needs her.
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I won’t miss this when it's gone.
A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5
I won’t miss this when it's gone.
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PM......
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I guess it takes less time to formulate the answers to
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all the questions why than it does to understand them.
A#5 A#5/A
I'm not talking about experts, medicine or science,
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there's folly in believing these things will ever satisfy her
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when memories of a body strapped with wires leaves her lost.
G5 D#5
I want to scream until my lungs bleed "I'm glad your son died on the cross",
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but i bite my lip and hold my tongue because everybody
G5 D#5
needs a safety net and i think she chose the right one.
End on
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