James Vincent McMorrow - We Don’t Eat: chords

     G
If this is redemption, why do I bother at all?
        Em                 C              G
There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed
C                    D
Still I'd rather be working at something,
Em
than praying for the rain
C              D                  G
So I wander on, till someone else is saved

I moved to the coast, under a mountain
Swam in the ocean, slept on my own
At dawn I would watch the sun cut
ribbons through the bay
I'd remember all the things my mother wrote

Chorus:
              Em              C               G
That we don't eat until your father's at the table
        Em                    C                 G
And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
          Em            C
And never once has any man
           G  D/F# Em
I've met been able to love
   C                 D                G
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust

Two thousand years, I've been in that water
Two thousand years, sunk like a stone
Desperately reaching for nets
That the fishermen have thrown
Trying to find, a little bit of hope

Me I was holding, all of my secrets soft and hid
Pages were folded, then there was nothing at all
So if in the future I might need myself a savior
I'll remember what was written on that wall

Chorus

Dm                       Em
Am I an honest man and true?
                           Dm
Have I been good to you at all?
                                 Am
Oh I'm so tired of playing these games
We'd just be running down
     G
The same old lines, the same old stories of
F
Breathless trains and, worn down glories
Am
Houses burning, worlds that turn
G
On their own

Chorus:
So we don't eat until your father's at the table
We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Never once has any man I've met been able to love
So if I were you my friend,
I'd learn to have just a little bit of trust