Tuning: G C E A (G C E A) 🎸 Verse 1: Em Cages and cases C Em Of starving birds and dead things C Em C No longer look anything like they did Em When they'd been living 🎸 Chorus: Am Em C Em The things you love you put into cement Am Em C Em In order to keep them they have to be dead Am Em C Em You think that he's yours but it's only in your head Am Em C D Em His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed
C Em C 🎸 Verse 2: Em Lockets and caskets C Em Full of garbage and ashes C Em C Nothing but collections of nothing Em You've been protecting 🎸 Chorus: Am Em C Em The things you love you put into cement Am Em C Em In order to keep them they have to be dead Am Em C Em You think that he's yours but it's only in your head Am Em C D Em His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed C Em C 🎸 Verse 3: Em C Taking baths in concrete Em C Harbor a love for things that don't exist Em C Try to set them into stone Em C But you can't, he's made of bones and flesh 🎸 Chorus: Am Em C Em The things you love you put into cement Am Em C Em In order to keep them they have to be dead Am Em C Em You think that he's yours but it's only in your head Am Em C D Em His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed C Em C