Vertebrae Chords by Christine Fellows

[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#m] A photo [C#] essay of a family [D#m] in mourning
Perforated ever [C#] so slightly
[F#] To better let the [D#m] light [C#] seep through _ _
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_ [D#m] _ _ Sunday [C#] traffic clears a path
[C] We float inches above [F#] the road
[C#]
Close our [D#m] eyes and drive so slow
[C#] Like we never [G#] need to get home
To _ _ _
_ [D#m] _ _ _ [C#] clear the [G#] doorstep of _ [D#m] flowers
Throw [C#] open the blinds [G#m] in his empty [D#m] room
_ Avert [C#] our eyes [G#m] from his fingerprints
[D#m] Is there [F#] something I'm forgetting? _ _
_ _ _ Fall to [C#] my knees in the hospital [D#m] parking lot
On the way [A#m] in, arms [C#] full of branches
[F#] I am dead [C#] fall, dead [G#] fall _ _ _ _ _
Last [F#] _ _ _ [C#] time I came here to visit [G#] him
Last time I ran, _ [A#m] sunburned through the [C#] halls
My arms [F#] full of tiger leaves
I [C#] don't remember this
I [G#] was told _ _ _ _ _ to [F#] go home
Clear [C#] the [G#] doorstep of _ [F#] flowers
Throw open [C#] the blinds in [G#] his empty [F#] room
Avert [C#] my eyes from [G#] his [D#m] fingerprints
Is there something I'm forgetting? _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ Why [F] _ when you know you [G#] should go
Is it so [D#m] hard to _ leave?
Why [C#] when you know you [G#] should go
Is it so [F#] hard to leave?
_ _ Why [C#] when you know [G#] you should go? _ _ _ _
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Came [C#] this far to say goodbye
[C] To set things right
Instead [A#m] I fiddle with his [C#] blankets [F#] Fetching coffee
No one [C#] will drink
I am not [G#] prepared
Through _ _ _ _ [F#] _ the hush of [C#] deaths
And the roar of [C] engines
You'll struggle [A#m] to recall
[C#] This is how it [F#] ended _ _
_ [C#] _ This is how [G#] it ends _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Home
Turn [C#] the key in the [G#] door and [D#m] pause
For what seems [C#] like an awfully [G#] long time
[D#m] _ Is something [C#] I'm both [G#] remembering and [F#] forgetting
A name on the tip of my tongue
Why _
_ [C#] _ when you know you [G#] should go
Is it so [F#] hard to leave?
_ _ Why [C#] when you know you [G#] should go
Is it so [F#] hard to leave?
_ _ Why _ [C#] _ when you know you [D#m] should [G#] go
Is it so [A#m] hard to [C#] leave?
[F#] _ Why [C#] when _ _ [G#] you know you should go
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