Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Tonight I'm posed and popping like a peacock

 I'm pressing flesh, I'm smiling big, my spinning head sings "Stop, just stop"

 Cause what used to calm me down

 Just rips my life to ribbons now

 So I keep smiling, I find my window and quick cut out

 These days my hangman's hunger makes my gut kick

 My sleeping mind, could map it blind

flask, key, bag, fifth

 I try to will myself away

 While shouting habits plead their case

 So when the sun sears through my eyes

 My beggar's brain can't compromise

 I splash cold water, I draw the curtains, I stay inside

 And I can't say that it's a sickness, more like a stranger I ask in

 And later realize, was a strangler

 Slipping nooses in my den

 But I was lonely so I asked him, "*Could* you tie that one on me?"

 It wasn't his fault, I was eager, and I was weak

 So as I inch towards resolution

 Yea I'm not sure which life feels right

 A narrow noose or the wading water

 The hanging head, sore open eyes

 my brother michael he went one way

 And at the fork I heard him say

 "Don't you follow, don't go making my mistakes"

 And I realized what he meant

 Don't kill yourself to raise the dead

 It never works you'll only end up joining them

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