Bones And Skin Chords
by Mirah
Bones And Skin by Mirah is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, C, Bm, D, F#, B and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
Em
If you live inside the old graveyard
C
Your skin and bones get kind of hard
Bm Em
You blame it on all of the ones who left you
Em
If you're in the closet with a broom
C
Why don't you sweep around the room
Bm Em
Make little piles of all the things you don't understand
D F# Bm Em
But it's in the mouth, it's in the blood
D B Bm C
It's sweet, the taste, the spit of love
D B Bm Em
Poor skin, too thick to understand
D B Bm Em
The gravity and graceful plans
Em
In the place that's made of old relations
C
Where some got loved, some got hated
B Em
How absently you move around, how listless
How in the night the battle raged
C Em
Under the blankets, were we brave
B Em
At least enough to recognize the storm is just a storm
D B Bm Em
Shine the lights across the bridge
D B Bm Em
The surface you can't follow it
D B Bm Em
The glossy night, the wind in fits
D B Bm Em
Get girders buckling at their bits
Em
Will I be this way when I'm dead
Will I go home and go to bed
B
Will I wake up and wonder
Em
Did something happen here
The weatherman, well he should know
C Em
The doctor, too, from down below
B Em
They call to one another ’cross the riding in the night
C
Don't forget, you've got love
B Em
You've got bravery, you've got trust
C
You've got bodies, responsibilities
B Em
There's still mountains, they're pushing up from underneath
C
You've got pain, caused plenty of
B Em
It's not so strange but now you've had enough
C
Don't forget your bones and skin
Em B E
Or where you go, or where you've been