Bones And Skin

      Em
If you live inside the old graveyard
     C
Your skin and bones get kind of hard
    Bm                              Em
You blame it on all of the ones who left you

Em
If you'€™re in the closet with a broom
              C
Why don't you sweep around the room
      Bm                                      Em
Make little piles of all the things you don't understand

D                F#         Bm      Em
But it's in the mouth, it's in the blood
      D          B         Bm      C
It's sweet, the taste, the spit of love
D    B          Bm        Em
Poor skin, too thick to understand
    D     B     Bm       Em
The gravity and graceful plans

Em
In the place that's made of old relations
        C
Where some got loved, some got hated
       B                             Em
How absently you move around, how listless


How in the night the battle raged
    C                         Em
Under the blankets, were we brave
     B                             Em
At least enough to recognize the storm is just a storm

  D          B     Bm       Em
Shine the lights across the bridge
       D      B        Bm   Em
The surface you can't follow it
      D      B         Bm      Em
The glossy night, the wind in fits
       D        B        Bm     Em
Get girders buckling at their bits

     Em
Will I be this way when I'm dead

Will I go home and go to bed
     B
Will I wake up and wonder
     Em
Did something happen here

The weatherman, well he should know
     C                 Em
The doctor, too, from down below
       B                              Em
They call to one another ‘cross the riding in the night

                          C
Don't forget, you've got love
              B                  Em
You've got bravery, you've got trust
                          C
You've got bodies, responsibilities
                 B                               Em
There's still mountains, they're pushing up from underneath
                           C
You've got pain, caused plenty of
              B                          Em
It's not so strange but now you've had enough
                             C
Don't forget your bones and skin
            Em B                   E
Or where you go, or where you've been