Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

Chorus

Bridge

I give you all my body to take

 Take good damn care of it

The taste of salt and water

 From my, from my shaking timid lips

I leave you all the things that I've seen

 In a box in a public space

So take it, all my memories

 They're yours

 Hold them close to your face

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

Bring it back

 Bring it home

Show me mercy

I'm a horrible man

Stay tight

 Just don't go

Lay me down and hold my hand

(same as first verse)

I may never live to explain

How I was made for this bedroom

Feel my baby kicking my mouth

Through the skin of her mother

I pray you never hear my sore voice

You don't need to know what I've done

Just know that I am always around

We both share the same blood

(Chorus)

Bring it back

Bring it home

Show me mercy

I'm a horrible man

Stay tight

Just don't go

Lay me down and hold my hand

Deliver all my goodwill

 And my goodwill to my mom

 If I die the years before her

Just read this to my brother:

"Be the one to close my eyes

 Be the one not to cry

 Laugh in my face when I die

 I've lived one hell of a life

 I've spent some odd years wishing I could share this with you"

(Chorus)

Bring it back

Bring it home

Show me mercy

I'm a horrible man

Stay tight

Just don't go

Lay me down and hold my hand

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

Hold them close

(Chorus)

Bring it back

Bring it home

Show me mercy

I'm a horrible man

Stay tight

Just don't go

Lay me down and hold my hand

Bring it back

Bring it home

Show me mercy

I'm a horrible man

Stay tight

Just don't go

Lay me down and hold my hand