Chords for Real Death

_ Death is real
_ [G] Someone's there and then they're not it's [F] not for singing about
It's [G] not for making into art
[C] when real death
enters the [Em] house all poetry is dumb
[C] when I
_ [G] walk in
to [C] the room
[G] where [A] you were
_ [F] and look
_ _ [G] in
to [C] the
[B] emptiness
[F] instead _
_ [G] all fails
my _ _ _ [F] knees fail _ _ _ _
_ [Am] my brain [A] fails _ _ _
_ [C] words fail _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Crusted with tears catatonic and [F] raw I go downstairs and outside and you [A] still get mail a _ _ _
_ [C] Week after [G] you died a package with your name on it came and inside was [F] a gift for our daughter
[G] you had ordered in [C] secret and collapsed [B] there on the front steps [A] I whale a
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] Backpack for when [B] she goes to school [A] a couple years from [B] now you were thinking ahead [C] to a future
You [B] must have known deep [Am] down would not include you [G] though
You clawed at the [C] cliff you were sliding down [G] being swallowed [C] into a silence
[Bm] It's [A] bottomless and real _ _ _ _
_ [G] It's dumb
And I don't [C] want to learn anything
I [A] love you _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _