Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Verse 1: C F C F Pills eat through you like acid burning holes C F C F Through your head, your mind, your bones and enamel C F C F Handcuffed to the bed like you’re an animal C F C F I don’t even recognize you anymore C F C F Try to put you down like an old dog to sleep C F C F Cut your branches off but you’re a dying tree C F C F The doctors came and pulled the sheet up over your head C F C F You’re already dead, you just don’t know it yet
Chorus: C F C F You are sick and I hate you and love you for it C F C F You’re a wreck but I’m always going to want you Verse 2: C F C F I hate to see the knife always under your arm C F C F Alone at night, cutting up neighborhood dogs C F You snuck me to your daddy’s bedroom C F Showed me all his guns C F You said, “Careful or you’ll blow your head off C F C Make sure the safety’s on” F C F Leaving things to die in the mud at the creek C F C F Pumping shotgun slugs out into the trees C F C F You run your fingers on the wood and feel its bullet holes C F C F It gives you something I could never give you or ever really know Chorus: C F C F You are sick and I hate you and love you for it C F C F You’re a wreck but I’m always going to want you Outro: C F And I don’t want to know what you’ve done C F Or what you think about doing C F C F I don’t want to know, so don’t tell me