Tuning: EADGBe
Capo on 1

Intro: G Em C D G

My darlin’ I hope you are rested
For tonight I plan to keep you
In my arms till far past dawn
If this town has your grace

But for a short while
Can we damn up all the damage
And enjoy the time we've got

G—-Em—-C–D—-G

Cassettes of country
Played our conversation
Broken hopes

and hearts conditioned
By the lives once ours then lost
It’s so easy to examine

From the outside
But while living
Sometimes breathing
Is a task beyond our means

I have felt the lightning hit the ground
While counting out the days
It’s the hope
that watching every hour
Could slow departures haste
And I know you didn’t need the heartache
And I was happy in the dark
But one cannot control the heart
To stop and start

G—-Em—-C–D—-G

My darlin’ I hope you are rested
For tonight I plan to keep you
In my arms till far past dawn
If this town has your grace

But for a short while
Can we damn up all the damage
And enjoy the time we've got

🙂 Have fun

Standard E-Tuning
Capo: II

Intro: C Em Am G F
(some hammers on the 5th string when you play Am and C)

We were waking ------ up

There was some blood coming from my mouth And a little

fear my---------- heart

I knew the concern----- you were showing As my-- lover--

dying in thought– As- my- breath

became so shallow and--------- sparse

It’s been a— long ^^time since then But I could feel myself repairing

Before Ibegan to damage my---------self again

And I co--nceded my ^^fa--ther and my brother just a----s well

We cannot escape the cause of thi------------s life----- style

My breath is a hammer

My insides are taxed like an anvil

My heartbeat’s a tremor

And I have not love but for nico-----------------------tine

And I wa------s sick all of the winter and summer aren't m----ore the same

Was always a sweatstained and frozen Yet hot like an----------engine

And with sleep came the cu—-rsing You know I know what is the poison

Will I breathe in my start like hands clasp themselves with con--------viction

There i----s little a ^^man can do When hi----s body is bent on a reckoning

The--se wounds can be hidden oh so well Yeah like a---------- demon

And I ca----n hear it in my ^^voice, oh Lord Can't ^^you-- hear ^^i-----t too?

And it scares me almost to tears As I know it wi---------ll ta----ke you---

My breath is a hammer

My insides are taxed like an anvil

My heartbeat’s a tremor

And I have not love but for nico-----------------------tine

My breath is a hammer

My insides are taxed like an anvil

My heartbeat’s a tremor

And I have not love but for nico-----------------------tine

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