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
I love you!