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1.
You hadn't seen your father in
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such a long time, he
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died
in the arms of his lover, how
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dare
he ? Your
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mother never left the house, she
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never married anyone
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else you took it upon
yourself to console her.
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2.
You reminded her so much of your
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father, so you were banished and you
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wonder why you're so hypersensitive and why you
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can't trust anyone but us.
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But
then how can I begin to forgive her, so many
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years under bridges with dirty water, she was
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Am E
foolish and selfish
and cowardly, if you ask me.
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3.
I don't know where to begin in all of my
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50
odd years I have been silently
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suffering and adapting
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perpetuating and enduring.
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Who
are you, younger generation, to tell me
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that
I have unresolved problems, not many
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examples of fruits of
this type of excruciating labour.
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4.
How can you just throw words around like
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grieve and heal and mourn, I feel
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fine
we may not have been born as
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awake as you were. It was
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much
harder in those days we had
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paper routes uphill both ways we went from
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school to a job to a
wife to instant parenthood.
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5.
I walked into his office, I felt
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so
self-conscious on the couch, he was
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sitting down across from me, he was
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writing down his hypothesis, I don't know.
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I've
got a loving supportive wife who
doesn't
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know
how involved she should get, you say his
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interjecting was him
just calling me on my shit?
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6.
Just the other day, my sweet daughter, I was
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driving past 203, I walked
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up
the stairs in my mind’s eye, I remember
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how
they would creak loudly. She was
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only
responsive with a drink, he was
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only
responsive by photo, I was
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only trying to be the
best big brother I could.
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7.
I've walked sometimes confused, sometimes ready to
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crack open wide, sometimes
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indignant sometimes raw, can you
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imagine I pay him 75
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dollars an hour, sometimes it feels like
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highway robbery and sometimes it's
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peanuts, I wish it
could last a couple more hours.
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8.
So here we both are battling similar
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demons, not coincidentally you see in
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getting
beyond knowing it solely intellectually, you're not
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relinquishing your majestry, you are
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wise, you are warm,
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you
are courageous, you are big
F#m Am
E
and I love you more
now than I ever have in my whole life.
+ Am ~ ~ ~ (Alanis Morissette)