The Antlers – Epilogue (Ukulele)

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In a nightmare, I am falling from the ceiling into bed beside you.

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You're asleep, I'm screaming, shoving you to try to wake you up.

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And like before, you've got no interest in the life you live when you're

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awake.

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Your dreams still follow storylines, like fictions you would make.

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So I lie down against your back, until we're both back in the hospital.

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But now it's not a cancer ward, we're sleeping in the morgue.

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Men and women in blue and white, they are singing all around you,

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With heavy shovels holding earth, you're being buried to you neck.

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In that hospital bed, being buried quite alive now.

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I'm trying to dig you out but all you want is to be buried there together.

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You're screaming,

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and cursing,

    Am
and angry,

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and hurting me,

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and then smiling,

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and crying,

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apologizing.

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I've woken up, I'm in our bed, but there's no breathing body there beside me.

Em                Am              C            D
Someone must have taken you while I was stuck asleep.

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But I know better as my eyes adjust, you've been gone for quite awhile now,

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And I don't work there in the hospital, they had to let me go.

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When I try to move my arms sometimes, they weigh too much to lift.

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I think you buried me awake, my one and only parting gift.

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But you return to me at night, just when I think I may have fallen asleep.

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Your face is up against mine, and I'm too terrified to speak.