Whalebones Chords

Fm
He felt her curves around his neck
C7
Like a yoke he knows, he never forgets.
Ab
The way she cut through his bed
Dm7b5
Like a snake would bite through a cave of flesh
Fm
But he holds her
C7
though she's broken
Ab
He swear he don't care
Bb9
where she's been
 
(That's the progression throughout the song)
 
He's tired
of being human
He wears her close to the bone as though she were his own skin
 
He shoots from the heart instead of the head
His mouth and his words they rarely connect
He looks to the past and where his tongue's tread
And he knows he's meant the opposite
 
But she holds him
like an infant
Though it breaks her in half to know he'll wake like a man
 
Sold on
cold indifference
When he reaches for her she's gone
She slips like the wind through blackened sails, but
 
Who are we to love at all?
 
I hope you don't mind
If I hang all of my hopes.
If I hang all of my hopes on this time
Although I've been warned
I'll probably get burned
I'd rather get burned than to not try
 
I hope you don't mind
If I hang all of my hopes
I hang all of my hopes all this time
'Cause you won't let it go
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