Wooden Heart Chords by Listener

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[E] _ _ _ We're all born to broken people on their most honest day of living.
[A] Since that first breath only grace that we've never [E] given.
Well, I've been haunted by standard red devils and white ghosts.
It's not only when these [A] eyes are closed.
These lies are ropes, they're tied [E] into my stomach, but they hold this ship together,
tossed like leaves in this weather.
My [A] dreams are sails that I point towards my true north, [E] stretch thin up on my rib bones,
pray that it gets better, but it won't.
At least I don't believe it [A] will.
So I built a wooden heart inside this iron [B] ship to sail these blood [E] red seas and find your coast.
Don't let these waves wash away your [A] hopes.
This warship is sinking and I still believe in anchors.
[E] Plumbing fistfuls of rotten wood from my heart, I still believe in saviors.
[F#] We're all [A] made out of shipwrecks, every single board.
Washed and bound like [B] crooked teeth on these [E] rocky shores.
Come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief.
Fold our lives [A] like crashing waves and run up on [E] this beach.
[B] Come on and sew us together, just some tattered rags staying forever.
[A] We only have what we remember.
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_ _ Well, I'm the barely living son of woman and man and barely baby, [A] but we're making it.
Tape together our brawl crutches and new start.
We all [E] have the same holes in our hearts.
Everything falls apart at the exact same [A] time that it all comes together perfectly for the next [B] step.
But my fear is [E] it's prison.
But I keep black below the main deck, I keep a can under my [A] pillow, it's quiet and it's hidden.
And my hopes are well, but I'm still [E] learning how to use writing.
They're heavy and I'm awkward, I'm always running out of light.
[A] Soft carve the wooden heart, put it in the sinking [F#] ship, help me [E] float for just a few more weeks.
But I'm all made out of shipwrecks every [A] twist.
Lost and bound like you and me all scattered out on the seas.
Come [E] on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief.
[A] Fold our lives like crashing waves and [F#] run up on this beach.
[E] Come on and sew us together, just some tattered rags staying forever.
[A] We only have what we remember. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ My throat still tastes like house fire and salt water.
_ Or this tide like loose skin, come on rock me to sea.
If we hold on tight, we'll hold each other together and not just be some fools rushing
to die in our sleep.
While these machines will rust, I promise we'll still be electric, shocking each other
back to life.
Your hand in mine, my fingers and your veins connected, our bones grown together entirely.
Our hands entwined, and my fingers and your veins connected, our spines grown stronger inside. _
Cause I know that our church is all made out of shipwrecks from every hole these rocks are playing.
[A] We can pick ourselves up, try and grow better, but [E] let's change.
Come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief.
[A] We'll fold our lives in crashing waves and run [F#] across the beach.
[B] Come on and sew us together, just some tattered rags staying forever.
[A] We only have what we remember.
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