Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Verse:
A minorAm DmDm
She flinches when anyone touches, still afraid to tells the cops
C majorC E minorEm
And hides behind closed curtains, 'cause memories of that night won't stop
A minorAm DmDm
While on the street corner he sits, rusted wheelchair, tin cup in hand
C majorC E minorEm
Drinking down thoughts of shelling, and the leg he left in Afghanistan
A minorAm DmDm
The wife and husband, they no longer talk about it, both have forgotten how to pray
C majorC E minorEm
Choking back the tears every time they think about their daughter's tiny grave
Dsus2Dsus2
And they're all just ignoring the ghosts down in their bones
Verse:
A minorAm DmDm
A augmentedA tired man sits alone in a corner, his nursing home gray and cold
C majorC E minorEm
With others abandoned by their children, they're all just struggling to be old
A minorAm DmDm
She worries where life may go, orphaned young and no kin that cared
C majorC E minorEm
Heading off in the back of a foster's car, alone and completely scared
A minorAm DmDm
They sit at the bar, maybe they glance, yet they still sit far apart
C majorC E minorEm
Cheated before, neither can afford the cost of another broken heart
Dsus2Dsus2
And they're all just a little crippled by the ghosts in their bones
Bridge:
DmDm A minorAm
We collect and we keep them, and bury them deep
G+G E minorEm
Wear our brave faces in public, and try not to weep
A minorAm C majorC
While life heaps on more, we ache, and we groan
Asus4Asus4 A minorAm
Fighting to keep the ghosts buried down in our bones
Verse:
A minorAm DmDm
They left bits of their soul scattered along the shoulder of life's road
C majorC E minorEm
Taking life's punches, entombing fears, all trying not to carry that load
A minorAm DmDm
The boy who can't face a priest, and who walks away from God
C majorC E minorEm
Or the girl who can't face her father, because he made childhood nasty and hard
A minorAm DmDm
They rattle within even those, even those without sin, to deal with on our own
C majorC E minorEm
Getting by but always fearing the ghosts down in their bones
And we're all just a little haunted by ghosts in our bones