Whole Again chords by May Erlewine

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Whole Again
May Erlewine

Intro:
G# C# C#
G# D#

Verse:
               G#            C#
They pulled my grandmother’s roses

Right out of the ground
D#  G#
85 years

She spent puttin those roots down
          G#          C#
She said “it’s to be expected

It’s the way it’s always been
   D#                G#
We take what we are given
       D#       C#
And we make it whole again”

         G# C# C#
Make it whole again
     G#       D#
Like only we can
         G# C# C#
Make it whole again
     G#       D#
With our holy hands

           G#9              C#
We’ve been ripped apart so many times
D#             G#
Still here we stand
     C#
And every day you come asking
Csus4
“Make it whole again?”

               G#            C#
They took my grandmothers paintings

Burned them then and there
D#  G#
Said she had the devils touch

And healed her with a prayer
          G#          C#
She said “it’s to be expected

How could they understand?

   D#                G#
You cannot see an ocean
       D#       C#
With your head down in the sand”
         G# C# C#
I paint it all again
     G#       D#
With my holy hands
         G# C# C#
We’ll make it whole again
     G#       D#
Like only we can

           G#9              C#
We’ve been ripped apart so many times
D#             G#
Still here we stand
     C#       G#
And every day you come asking
         D#
“Make it whole again?”

           G#
They took every ounce of truth we had
     D#           G#
and fed it to the fire
C#           D#
Took our pain like Novacaine
    G#               C#
and wrote us off as liars
    G#
It burned into our history
     D#      G#
A legacy of shame
C#           D#
Took every ounce of beauty
     G#                C#(8va)
and never learned our names

     G#                C#(8va)
What if we could fix it
     G#       D#
What if there’s no time
     G#                C#(8va)
What if we resisted
     G#       D#
Called the lie a lie

G#                 C#
What if there’s no savior
      D#          G#
There never was a choice
   D#                G#
Do you hear the pleading prayers
D#              C#
shaking in our voice
G#                 C#
Screaming from the heavens
      D#          G#
To this earthly place I stand
      D#          G#
Drowning in the wreckage

I don’t know if we can
Make it whole again x8