C        F                 Am      F
So near asleep I hear your breath:
C           F              Am    F
the root of living in your chest.
C         F                 Am   F
It is the fact that you are here.
C         F                  Am   F
It is the proof that you are here.

C                  F
What’s done should just be done.
      Am        F
Don’t talk just use our lungs.
    C           F        Am       F
The brains that your dad said you had,
               C    F       Am    F
you lost them. Terrified of our potential,
    C       F             Am      F
and all the ways we might fail to meet it.


[Chorus]
F           G
‘Round here we are all the same,
G                   F
we want sleep with no bad dreams
Am                  G
in our own bed with heat
G                F               C
from somebody who won’t keep me awake.


[Interlude]
C F Am F (x2)


[Verse 2]
C            F                Am  F
The simplest act is still the one
C            F                 Am   F
that we’ll remember when we’re done.
C              F           Am  F
The last thing I hope I forget,
C         F                    Am   F
when everything else starts to slip,
   C        F         Am       F
is sleeping over your parents’ bedroom.
C           F      Am       F
We’d turned 18 not long ago.
    C    F          Am      F
The open window had made it so cold.
    C      F                  Am   F  Am
For me you shut it, then came back to bed.


[Interlude]
Am G F G (x2)


[Chorus]
F           G
‘Round here we are all the same,
G                   F
we want sleep with no bad dreams
Am                  G
in our own bed with heat
G            F                  Am
from somebody who won’t keep me awake.
                             G
So nothing risked is nothing gained.
G                  F
It’s the surest way to stay safe.
Am                      G
Afraid to spell out the ways
G                     F
that we think we could help each other.
Am                  G
So lay next to me tonight.
G                 F
Though I may not be satisfied
Am                  G
I will stay by your side
G             F                 Am
and be company ‘til the morning light.