Chords with lyrics
Verse
D MajorD
I am six years old in the back of my mother's car
G+G
And I will be seven in December
D MajorD
She will be gone by the beginning of next spring
G+G
And I will be left to remember
D MajorD
To re member
D MajorD
I ask my little questions
She laughs a little laugh
G+G
But she won't tell me where we're going
D MajorD
She looks in my eyes with her eyes in the mirror
G+G
And says some things you're better off not knowing
D MajorD
Not knowing
A augmentedA G+G
But I don't know what her voice sounds like
A augmentedA G+G
I don't know what her skin feels like
A augmentedA G+G
I only know what it might feel like
B minorBm A augmentedA
When a mother holds her daughter
B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
D MajorD
Leaving this life
D MajorD
She's left with that reflection of me at six years old
G+G
And I have her eyes in the mirror
D MajorD
Well she and I, we are defined by what we have lost
G+G
Don't you wonder whose loss is dearer
D MajorD
Dearer
A augmentedA G+G
She doesn't know what my voice sounds like
A augmentedA G+G
She doesn't know what my skin feels like
A augmentedA G+G
And I only know what it might feel like
B minorBm A augmentedA
When a mother holds her daughter
B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
Leaving this life
A augmentedA G+G
And I don't know what her voice sounds like
A augmentedA G+G
And I don't know what her skin feels like
A augmentedA G+G
I only know what it might feel like
B minorBm A augmentedA
When a mother holds her daughter
B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
When that mother knows she's leaving this life
D MajorD
Leaving this life
G+G
Leaving this life
D MajorD
Leaving this life
G+G D MajorD
Leaving this life