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