C C F C C C She’ll never know, when she tells you goodnight, F C The fear that you hide, as she lays by your side. C C When you stand, all the faults of a man F C Etched right in your face, still she lays there in place. Am G How the warmth of the garden you sowed. Am G Is the stuff of these bones, once broken and cold. C C And you go home and you sleep in your bed, F C Feel like your dancing in sync with the ghosts in your head. Am G And she wakes. You say, “go back to sleep,” Am G You dare never say, the greatest secret you keep C C Is that you might be alone, that you might have to run, F C That the rest of your life will be a series of nights Am That you spend in your mind G Staring backwards through time N.C. C At something you lost. C C F C C C And you’ll never be home. You’ll never be one F C Eyes closed in the sun on a warm day in June. Am G But on the damp dirty floor of your wintry cold room, Am G You see her face in the dust. How it fills you up. N.C. C C And you say “Hello. Hello. F C Please don’t ever leave. Please don’t ever go, Am And you can call me a man. G It’s etched right in my face. Am But it could never span G the endless expanse of space C all around us alone. C And just this one small home, F One brief moment of time, C The only thing I call mine Am is this line that we crossed G And how it came at the cost N.C. C Of everything that I lost