Settle The Scar chords by The Hotelier

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
  F   G      Am
Dizzy, drunk and throwing up
         G
I finally stopped my spinning
   F   G      Am
I guess I figured you'd show up
          G
With all my old belongings
   F   G      Am
Saying "there you go my friend
          G
I'm sure you've saved another"
   F   G      Am
Collapsing walls around me
       G       C
I need some brick and mortar

Chorus:
C
Took a swing at shortened cuts
Am
Made a wrong turn somewhere
Bm
Unprepared for fucking up
F              C
Should remind me I'm still there
C    Am
And I am feeling sharpened splinters
Bm
Cutting through my center
F   Em
To hear you as you're coming around again


Verse 2:
  F   G      Am
You've taken pages from a book
           G
You couldn't see your face in
  F   G      Am
Claimed the author was a crook
           G
In need of illustration
  F   G      Am
And you were begging me for more
           G
Did you get what you wanted?
  F   G      Am
The feeling in your fingers
            G
Right back from where you started?

Chorus:
C
You made a map of how you loved
Am
And drew a perfect circle
Bm
I scribbled a Venn diagram
F
Guess I lost my stable hand
C    Am
And I am feeling long cold winters
Bm
I'm lost and can't remember
F   Em
The ways to keep myself as warm as then

Bridge:
N.C.
I owned your name, your body shape
N.C.
It sits like family, a grateful offering reflected on the lake
N.C.
New slight of hand will trick my memory
N.C.
A veil on everything
N.C.
The paths that you could take

Interlude:
Am Bm G Em C x


         Am G    Em  F
You said you see life in exploding color
         Am   G
Like the flash of stars
G        Em
Or New England autumn
  F              Am
I should've asked if you could stay
      G         Em F
I should've found a way around it
  F             Am
Because now all I see is grey
    G               Em  F
All trapped in memories that surround it

C
And in your father's summer home
Am
He squared and framed the question
Bm
Collage of newsprint on the wall
F
Makes me feel cut in sections
C    Am        Bm
And I am shaking off my chagrin

Flaking snow and dead skin
     F       Em
That buried me in all my past mistakes

C Am Bm F

F                C
I should've asked if you could stay

C Am Bm F