Rocky Votolato – Secrets Of A Salesman (Ukulele)

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F                       Dm
These baby secrets have grown into children

        F                     G
through dirty adolescence and now into manhood

Dm                   F                                G        
I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key

F                         Dm                          
but it made no difference still they travel with me 

F                          G
even though I killed them they'll haunt me and they'll help me

Dm                       F                  G
remember the lies in the shadows, practiced charades

   Dm           F                   G
my hands are an axe chopping at the roots

       Dm          F                         G
of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit

   Dm             F                  Dm         G
to cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce

        Dm               F                G
another heart of lies, a house of haunted rooms 

    F        G        Dm      G                F           
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been

   Dm    F     Em  G
so distant and weak

F       G               Dm        G            F              
dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"

         G     Dm           G  Dm      G     Dm           G  Dm   F
and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water 

F                       Dm
tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken 

 F                       G
salesman as he's rolling down the conveyer belt

    Dm                F                           G  
the product is almost ready to be shipped out the door

F                  Dm 
out into the world to make a living 

F                        G
selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em

Dm                        F                      G
to forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades

    Dm         F                     G  
the enemy will make sure the ties on straight

           Dm             F                     G
cause it's always best to make an impression of wealth

   Dm              F                  Dm                  G
no matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface

    Dm                   F              G
"I love you" spills like vomit from her lips

    F        G        Dm      G                F           
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been

   Dm    F     Em  G
so distant and weak

F       G               Dm        G            F              
dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"

         G     Dm           G  Dm      G     Dm           G  Dm   F
and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water 

F    Dm    F   G
water

Dm                    F                            G        
I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key

F    Dm    F   G
water

Dm                     F                     G
forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me