Real Death chords by Mount Eerie

Chords with lyrics

C majorC
Death is real.
     G+G
Someone’s there and then they’re not
         FF
and it’s not for singing about.
       G+G
It’s not for making into art.
   F9F9    FF
When real death enters the house
  E minorEm
all poetry is dumb.
  F9F9 FF  G+G
When I walk in
    C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
to the room where you were
  FF  G+G
and look into
  C majorC  C/BC/B  FF
the emptiness instead
   G+G
all fails.
  FF
My knees fail.
  A minorAm
My brain fails.
  C majorC
Words fail.
G+G
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw,
 FF                     A minorAm
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail.
 C majorC         C/BC/B          A minorAm
A augmentedA week after you died a package with your name on it came
  G+G          FF           G+G
and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
  C majorC           G+G       A minorAm   G+G
and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed.
  FF          E MajorE          A5A5
A augmentedA backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now.
     B minorBm         C majorC          G+G           A minorAm
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you
     G+G              FF          G+G
though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a
C majorC        G+G        A minorAm  Am/GAm/G
silence that is bottomless and real.
   G+G
It’s dumb
           FF
and I don’t want to learn anything from this.
   A minorAm