Nails

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G                           Am            C    D 
Can't stop biting my nails, every nervous breakdown 
G                         Am            D 
Keeps me biting my nails, piled up in a mound 
     Em                                C      G 
They sit there in the corner while i'm pacing around 
G                                Am         D           G 
I'm still biting my nails, where there's no nails to be found 
 

 
G                            Am            C   D 
I'm not biting my nails, I'm chewing on my fingers 
G                       Am                  D 
Gone of my fingernails, in their places are bone 
     Em                             C             G 
This heavens not as soothing as the one I used to know 
    G                           Am         D           G 
But I don't have any nails, and that's the way that it goes 
 

 
      C                G             D 
Maybe someday, they'll all grow back again 
          C             G                 D 
And maybe someday, I'll learn to count to ten 
          C             G               D 
And maybe someday, I'll count on all of them 
                C              G                   D 
But you stay in one place, and they'll come by and leave 
            G 
Just like a friend 
 

 
G                       Am                  C    D 
My collection of nails, scattered where the wind blows 
G                              Am                   D 
Shower strangers like hail, of needles withing like snow 
  Em                                  C                 G 
I just can't help myself from tearing up, watching them go 
G                           Am     D     G 
Falling feathers and nails, out of my window 
 

 
G                                 Am                C   D 
They cross examined my nails, and pick them off the pavement 
G                      Am             D 
Here I rock in a jail, fingerless and alone 
    Em                                    C         G 
The prison guards play boardgames with my old fingerbones 
       G                       Am      D          G 
While somebody bites my nails, someone I'll never know 
Am      D          G 
Someone I'll never know 
Am      Bm         G 
Someone I'll never know 
Am      Bm         G 
Someone I'll never know