Then: A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 Soak up all the strain and cast out all your old complaints. A#5 A#5/A She didn't work this hard to give up and let death stake a claim. G5 D#5 20 years, 1 month and 27 days. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 Is this all she gets? A#5 A#5/A A striking realisation that the cross she had to bear wasn't half as G5 D#5 heavy as the burden that now hangs around her neck. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 I won’t miss this when it's gone. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 I won’t miss this when it's gone. A#5 A#5/A G5 What is there to say? Another fumbled consolation cuts the air D#5 but seems to fail in every way. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 You can't sum up in two lines the cost to a mother that outlives her child, so why bother. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 Is this all she gets? A#5 A#5/A A solemn promise that times a great healer, G5 D#5 from someone that could never understand quite how much that she needs her. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 I won’t miss this when it's gone. A#5 A#5/A G5 D#5 I won’t miss this when it's gone. PM...... A#5 A#5/A I guess it takes less time to formulate the answers to G5 D#5 all the questions why than it does to understand them. A#5 A#5/A I'm not talking about experts, medicine or science, G5 D#5 there's folly in believing these things will ever satisfy her A#5 A#5/A when memories of a body strapped with wires leaves her lost. G5 D#5 I want to scream until my lungs bleed "I'm glad your son died on the cross", A#5 A#5/A but i bite my lip and hold my tongue because everybody G5 D#5 needs a safety net and i think she chose the right one. ************************************ | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note | b Bend | pb Pre-bend | br Bend release | pbr Pre-bend release | brb Bend release bend ************************************