Real Death chords by Mount Eerie

C
Death is real.
          G
Someone’s there and then they’re not
                  F
and it’s not for singing about.
             G
It’s not for making into art.
      F9        F
When real death enters the house
    Em
all poetry is dumb.
    F9  F    G
When I walk in
       C     G       Am
to the room where you were
    F    G
and look into
    C   C/B   F
the emptiness instead
     G
all fails.
    F
My knees fail.
    Am
My brain fails.
   C
Words fail.
G

Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw,
  F                                          Am
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail.
  C                 C/B                    Am
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
   G                    F                     G
and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
    C                     G             Am      G
and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed.
   F                   E                   A5
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now.
          Bm                 C                    G                     Am
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you
          G                           F                    G
though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a
C               G               Am    Am/G
silence that is bottomless and real.
     G
It’s dumb
                      F
and I don’t want to learn anything from this.
     Am