Nettles

[Intro] F6  C  C7M

F6                      F
We were in a race to grow up
       C                        C7M
Yesterday, through today, till tomorrow
 F6                    F
But when the plant blew up
              C                                C7M
A piece of shrapnel flew and slowed that part of you
 F6                             F
The doctors gave you until the end of the night
  C
But not till daylight (not till daylight)
  C7M            G
Not till daylight (not till daylight)

 F6                      F
Time passes slower in the flicker of the hospital light
C                            C7M
I pray the race is worth the fight

 F6             F
Made a fool of myself
 F
Down on Tennessee Street
          C
It wasn't pretty like the movies
      C7M                               F6
It was ugly, like what they all did to me
 F                                      C
And they did to me what I wouldn't do to anyone
                    C7M
You know that's for sure

  F
Tell me all the time not to worry
                       C                C7M
And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you
                           F
When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own)
F
Wake up on my own
 F                                      C
Held close all the time, knowing I'm half of you

( F6  F  C  C7M  G )

 F
Lay me down where the trees bend low
 C                     C7M
Put me down where the greenery stings
 F
I can hear them singing (singing)
                     C
To love me is to suffer me
              G
And I believe it

F                                       C
When I lay with you in that auld lang room
                   G                    F
Wishin' I was the way you say that you are
                                 C
You'll go fight a war, I'll go missing
                 G                    F
I warned you, for me, it's not that hard

  F                                                        C
That picture on the wall you're scared of looks just like you
                  G                     F
I wanna bleed, I wanna hurt the way that boys do
F                                                 C
Maybe you're right and we should stop watching the news
                     G
'Cause, baby, I've never seen brown eyes look so blue

 F
Tell me all the time (tell me all the time) not to worry (not to worry)
                     C                  G
And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you
           F
When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own)

Wake up on my own
                                       G
Held close all the time, knowing I'm half of you

   F                                    F
Think of us inside (think of us inside), after the wedding (after the wedding)
 C                                    G
Suffering the while to lie a time or two
 F
When we won't wake up on our own (wake up on our own)
F
Wake up on our own (wake up on our own)
      C                               G
Held close all the time, knowing (knowing)
   F
This was all for you

F
Think of us inside
 C                       G                                    F
Gardenias on the tile, where it makes no difference who held back from who


To love me is to suffer me