Tonalità: D major
Verse 1
D
My sister has a daughter that doesn't
C
look much like her
G
She looks more like the father
D
she won't see
She's mostly on her
phone these days
C
She's got a couple friends
her age
G
Some secrets that she'd
die to try to keep
D
Verse 2
G
When I'm staying in their guest room
A
I can hear her in the next room
G
The whispers and the silence
D
and the sighs
She doesn't eat much breakfast
C
A single slice of toast at most
G
Watches from the corners
G
There's crumbs around the corner of her mouth
Verse 3
D
G
You can hear the highway
A
from their house
Bm
A
The traffic sounds like water in
G
D
a river rushing south
A
We'll never win this war but maybe
G
D
we can wait it out
A
We'll never win this war but maybe
G
we can wait it out
D
Verse 4
Her mother is my sister
C
She's a fighter but she's tired now
G
The third shift's such a bitch to
On Sundays she puts perfume on
C
And waltzes with the vacuum on
G
D
Sucks up the destruction of the week
Verse 5
G
In the kitchen there's a radio
A
She sings along the ones she knows
G
Remembers back when some
D
of these were new
When the girls all chose a guy from
C
the dances at the Y
G
Because it felt like that was what
D
you're supposed to do
Verse 6
G
D
Now all those choices seem a little grim
G
Violent wild or disengaged
Bm
A
The highway goes forever
G
D
But your funds will fence you in
A
Paying bills and stubbing out
G
D
generic super slims
A
The years they put the yellow in
G
her hair and teeth and skin
D
Verse 7
Em
Her husband was a contractor
G
a hunter and a fly fisher
C
He never raised a hand he just withdrew
G
Em
So far inside his head that you would
G
barely even notice him
C
A ghost that's usually in
D
Em
the other room
Verse 8
Em
Eventually they started sleeping
C
G
Eventually it didn't even hurt
Em
Last winter he moved out to
G
his brothers house
C
Eventually he stopped
going to work
D
Verse 9
G
Now she hasn't seen a check
D
in seven months
G
They're living off of credit
cards and crumbs
A
Verse 10
G
A
She's pretty sure her daughter has been
G
D
meeting up with boys
A
We'll never win this war but
G
maybe we won't get destroyed
D
She's wishing that
G
D
Wouldn't make that goddamn noise
Verse 11
Em
She doesn't really trust
A
her daughter's friends
Em
But she's happy that I'm
A
D
helping out with rent
A
D
A
So we stay up late and talk
G
about the way it was before
D
A
We can maybe wait it out but we'll
G
D
never win this war
A
We can maybe wait it out but
G
D
we'll never win this war
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