Misc Unsigned Bands – Atwood - Wait For The Sirens To Pass (Guitar)

C                           E7
    Things seem so opposite 

                Am
More and more 

         G
Everyday 

C                                 E7     
    I'm asleep when I'm wide awake 

             Am
And the sun shines 

             G
When it rains 

C                     
    Feels like I'm lying when 

      E7
I'm telling the truth 

          Am
And it hurts

           G 
How it pains 

                 C
When they ask how I'm doing 

                E7
And i just smile in reply 

         Am
I say "Thanks

      G
I'm okay" 

            C  
I'm just    stumblin' 

            E7                           Am
I'm just    drunk again

                              G
It's not my fault anyway

               C
Just some    song I wrote

               E7                        Am
Just some    heart I broke

                           G
Another ball and chain 

C                        E7
    My father put down his guitar

             Am
And he spoke

          G 
His refrain 

             C                                               E7
He said "You can write songs 'till you're blue in the face 

             Am
But son nothin's

            G 
Gonna change"

         C                                   E7                    
And I think of that now as I'm writing this down

               Am 
trying to catch

         G 
Your gaze 

                 C                                     E7
With some pretty words, wrapped in metaphors 

                     Am
Hoping I can leave you

         G 
On a page 

                  C
Take what's      killing me,

                  E7                          Am
Light it with      kerosene, 

                      G
Turn and walk away 

                C
May each       verse I write

                E7                            Am
Be my last     compromise 

                                G
To simply numb the pain 

              C                 E7        Am
Because you know as well as I do

                  F        G    C  
That these things will fade 

C                                   E7 
    I know a woman who lives alone

      Am
In a house

                G 
Down the way 

                    C   
Who wears a beautiful gown 

          E7
And a thorny crown 

                 Am                       G
And hangs paintings without frames

      C     
She waters her plants

                       E7                                    Am 
And feeds her shepard dog that's locked up 

             G
With no name 

                 C
And every now and again

                  E7 
Something falls and breaks

        Am                        G 
And darkness leads the way

                         C 
'Cause when her    husband died

                         E7                           Am
There was no          blinding light 

                      G
Just an empty grave

              C
Now her       hallowed god

              E7                                      Am 
Is just a        calloused fraud

                             G
And no one's ever saved

C                                           E7               
    Sometimes I hear her sing songs so true

            Am 
They remind me

       G 
Of a place

        C                 
That I've never been

            E7                                       Am 
But her voice captures me, and I'm forced 

         G
To retrace

       C                    
The steps to her door

            E7                                 Am  
Where I hide and listen, 'till her dog barks

              G 
From its cage

              C
And she straightens up,

          E7                      Am 
Looks right at me, and demands

                G 
In a wispy way

              C
She says              "Who are you?"

                      E7                                 Am
"What are you      going to do?" 

                                        G
"Come out and show your face"

         C
I said        "Ma'm I've tried 

         E7                                              Am
My en---tire life

                                    G
To try and answer that phrase 

      C        E7     Am       
But if you sing another song,

                   F 
I think we'd be

G   C  
O-kay 

        C                   E7     Am
And should we all die tomorrow 

                  F
At least we had 

G    C
To-day