St Joe Keeps Us Safe chords by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

For the verse after the chorus play Bm, C, D barred and one string at a time

G
I got sick of the silence,
   Bm
I got tired of the dark,
    C            D         Em
I was sleeping in late, I was wasting away, I was dying in small parts.
   G             Bm
So I lit up a smoke and, Took a walk through the park.
  C              D              Em
The dead leaves scrape concrete making it sound like you're next to me, arm in arm.
   D
I was putting holes in the drywall.
    Em    D       C
I was hoping you'd save me from me.
     G
I'm gonna go see my mother.
     Bm
Take the LIRR.
     C               D           Em
Walk the cold Brooklyn streets towards Astoria, Queens out to West Babylon.
 G
I walked up the driveway.
    Bm
Saw my Daddy's old car.
   C              D          Em
He's been gone for months but we covered it up and it sits in the yard.
   D    Bm    C
Well I spent my whole life saying I'd never need no one
  G    F    Em
but I think I might need you.
        A             C     Cm
I think I might need you. I think I might need you.
  G
We sat in the kitchen.
       Bm
My mother's a soldier of god,
    C            D            Em
and so paintings of Jesus, and statues of saints still adorn all the halls,
     G
But we'll never go hungry,
       Bm
thanks to the infant of Prague,
    C             D          Em
and St. Joe keeps us safe cause we buried him deep in a hole in the backyard.
 D
I know things ain't been good since dad died.
 Em       D       C
I know you don't need this from me.
  G
But mama, I'm breaking.
      Bm
There's no light in the dark.
C                 D            Em
Dianne left this week. She said, "Son, look at me. I know we ain't been this low before
  G
and I'm sorry Aaron.
      Bm
I know this year has been hard.
     C           D             Em
If you're hurt then I'm hurt. I won't make it worse. I'm always in your corner."
   D    Bm    C
Well I spent my whole life saying I'd never need no one
  G    F    Em
but I think I might need you.
        A             C     Cm
I think I might need you. I think I might need you.
Am     Bm
Something's wrong.
    G    C    Em
I been waiting here too long.
   Am             Bm        G       C
She said, "I knew something was wrong. You ain't called here in too
 Em
long.
         F           C#          G
Take the car and run. Take the car and run. Take the car and run."