Fingertips

Capo: 5th fret [Verse 1] F Em F When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags Em C Bm Em Thinking, "I wish I could extrapolate some small intention Bm Em C D Or maybe just get your attention for a minute or two" [Verse 2] F Em Will I die? Or will I get to that ten-year mark? F Em Where I beat the extinction of telomeres? Dm E7 And if I do, will you be there with me, Father, Sister, Brother? [Verse 3] F Charlie, stop smoking G Caroline, will you be with me? Will the baby be alright? F G Will I have one of mine? F Can I handle it even if I do? G It's said that my mind F Is not fit, or so they said, to carry a child C Am I guess I'll be fine [Verse 4] F Dm It wasn't my idea, the cocktail of things that twists neurons inside G But without them, I'd die E7 F They say there's irony in the music, it's a tragedy, I Dm G See nothing Greek in it E7 Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, and Dave F Who hung himself real high Dm G G#dim In the National Park sky, it's a shame and I'm crying right now Am E7 To get to you, save you, if I take my life G D#dim Find your astral body, put it into my eyes F Give you two seconds to cry G Take you home, I, I'll give you a blanket G#dim Am Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side D G 'Cause, baby, I E7 Ran through a time when I felt you were doing it [Verse 5] F I couldn't handle it, I was in Monaco F I couldn't hear what they said on the telephone G I had to sing for the prince in two hours G Sat in the shower E7 Dm Gave myself two seconds to cry Dm G It's a shame that we die [Verse 6] C When I was fifteen, naked, next-door neighbors did a drive-by F C Pulled me up by my waist, long hair to the beach side F I wanted to go out like you, swim with the fishes C That he caught on Rhode Island beaches Em F But, sometimes, it's just not your time [Verse 7] G E Caroline, what kind of **** was she to say I'd end up in institutions? F G C All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene and sit by Am F G The lake, twisting lime into the drinks that they made E7 F Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was born in, and died [Verse 8] Am G Aaron ended up dead and not me C What the fuck's wrong in your head to send me away, never to come back? G E7 F Exotic places and people don't take the place of being your child Fm C I give myself two seconds to cry [Verse 9] Am G Let it crash over me Like the waves in the sea E7 F Call me Aphrodite G As they bow down to me [Verse 10] Dm E F G Sunbather, moon chaser, queen of empathy E7 F I give myself two seconds to breathe G And go back to being a serene queen E7 F I just needed two seconds to be me