Settle The Scar

    F      G            Am
Dizzy, drunk and throwing up
                  G
I finally stopped my spinning
     F      G            Am
I guess I figured you'd show up
                    G
With all my old belongings
     F      G            Am
Saying "there you go my friend
                    G
I'm sure you've saved another"
      F      G            Am
Collapsing walls around me
             G             C
I need some brick and mortar

[Chorus]
C
Took a swing at shortened cuts
Am
Made a wrong turn somewhere
Bm
Unprepared for fucking up
F                           C
Should remind me I'm still there
C        Am
And I am feeling sharpened splinters
Bm
Cutting through my center
F      Em
To hear you as you're coming around again


[Verse 2]
    F      G            Am
You've taken pages from a book
                      G
You couldn't see your face in
    F      G            Am
Claimed the author was a crook
                      G
In need of illustration
    F      G            Am
And you were begging me for more
                      G
Did you get what you wanted?
    F      G            Am
The feeling in your fingers
                       G
Right back from where you started?

[Chorus]
C
You made a map of how you loved
Am
And drew a perfect circle
Bm
I scribbled a Venn diagram
F
Guess I lost my stable hand
C        Am
And I am feeling long cold winters
Bm
I'm lost and can't remember
F     Em
The ways to keep myself as warm as then

[Bridge]
N.C.
I owned your name, your body shape
N.C.
It sits like family, a grateful offering reflected on the lake
N.C.
New slight of hand will trick my memory
N.C.
A veil on everything
N.C.
The paths that you could take

[Interlude]
Am Bm G Em C x


                  Am  G        Em   F
You said you see life in exploding color
                  Am     G
Like the flash of stars
G                Em
Or New England autumn
   F                           Am
I should've asked if you could stay
            G                  Em  F
I should've found a way around it
   F                          Am
Because now all I see is grey
       G                             Em   F
All trapped in memories that surround it

C
And in your father's summer home
Am
He squared and framed the question
Bm
Collage of newsprint on the wall
F
Makes me feel cut in sections
C        Am                Bm
And I am shaking off my chagrin

Flaking snow and dead skin
          F             Em
That buried me in all my past mistakes

C Am Bm F

F                               C
I should've asked if you could stay