A Lasting Place

Intro 

Ebm  Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7 

Interlude 

Ebm                           Bmaj7 
What kind of man weeps at the feet of his wife in pain 
                      Abm7 
Holds up the pink and shrieking thing and feels the throb of time 
Bmaj7                                                 Ebm 
What kind of man wraps a cloth around his waist and holds the baby to his chest 
                                  Bmaj7 
Walks through the streets swaying like a drunk in the morning 
                               Abm7                                        Bmaj7    Ebm 
What kind of man feels the rage of men and only swallows at his daughter's fists 
Bmaj7                                  Abm7 
What kind of man bends to hold them in their suffering 
                                           Bmaj7 
In their questions, in their garbled turns of phrase 
                                      Ebm 
What kind of man admits his failures, turns over his heavy stones 
                      Bmaj7 
Stands at the feet of grief and wanting and does not turn away 
Abm7 
What kind of man becomes a father, A Lasting Place 


[Verso 1]


Ebm                        Bmaj7 
Uh, she see my father in me 
                             Abm7 
That's why she argue with me 
                                 Bmaj7 
That's why they can't forgive me 
Ebm 
Uh, rock and a hard place 
Ebm 
I wear a hard face 
Bmaj7 
Close the door, leave my house like I'm Scarface 
Abm7 
Yeah, sweet success that I can't taste 
Bmaj7 
I heard the bang, still finishing the last race 


[Verso 2]


Ebm 
Lapping me, a year ago, yo, they was clapping me 
Bmaj7 
Nobody told me that I'd lose it so rapidly 
Abm7 
I thought this was the kind of thing that goes gradually 
Bmaj7 
My hair line, the good guys I was glad to be 
Ebm 
Grim Reaper's catching me, yeah 
Bmaj7 
Yeah, it's like I work for him 
Abm7 
I'm being punished for the times that I would sin 
Bmaj7 
When I tried to do right, still I did the wrong thing 
Ebm                    Bmaj7 
I thought I was a king 
Abm7                   Bmaj7 
I thought I was a king 

Break 

Ebm                         Bmaj7 
Trouble in the one-six-nine 
Abm7                   Bmaj7 
I almost lost my life 

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Ebm                         Bmaj7 
Trouble in the one-six-nine 

Abm7  Bmaj7 


[Verso 3]


                                  Ebm 
So how am I supposed to sum it up? 
                                    Bmaj7 
Listen, this is what the summer does 
                                                 Abm7 
And I ain't losing any one of us, a mother's love 
Abm7 
Yeah, mother's love 
Bmaj7 
I know it isn't what it is, I wished it was 
Ebm 
The love is great 
                              Bmaj7 
To raise the man that you hate 
Bmaj7 
Growing in the man that you make 
Abm7 
Uh, knowing if you plan your escape 
Bmaj7 
Then the next man's handed his fate 


[Verso 4]


Ebm 
They say that time waits for no man, uh (da, da, da, da-da-da) 
Ebm 
At least it didn't for my old man 
Bmaj7 
So fuck it, me and the Devil we can slow dance 
Abm7 
A slow dance through the city, through that cold sand 
Bmaj7 
I'm here all fucking week and ain't got no plans 
Ebm                                               Bmaj7 
Was staring back at the reflections of a grown man 
Abm7 
We're staring back at the reflections of a grown man 
Bmaj7 
But I don't want to be an old man 

Outro 

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Ebm                         Bmaj7 
Trouble in the one-six-nine 
Abm7                  Bmaj7 
I almost lost my life 

Ebm  Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7 
Ebm  Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7 
                       Abm7   Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7 
Trouble in the one-six-nine 
Ebm                  Bmaj7 
You almost lost your life 
Abm7                 Bmaj7 
You almost lost your life 

Ebm  Bmaj7  Abm7  Bmaj7 
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