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