tom:
Dm
Intro: D F
Dm7
On being comatose
F
Don’t worry just yet
Dm7
You’ll feel it in your toes
F
But not what comes next
Dm7
This mantras typical
F
For all the boys back at home
Dm7
It isn’t cynical
F
But passed on their own
Pré Refrão
G
She wasn’t sick with it
Bb
She had a power to her name
F
She dropped out with a kid and wondered how things got this way
G
And all this weight she bears
Bb
Pulling the corners of her back
F C
Somehow it all just seems so sad
G
They’re all here
I’m out there
Bb
They’ve been stuck all these years
D
So tell me
C
Why do I get so down
When I visit my hometown
G
They’re all here
I’m out there
Bb
I’ll move west in a year
D
So tell me
C
Why do I get so down
Bb
When I visit my hometown
Homebound
Homebound
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D F )
Dm7
In school they had their fun
F
White garland necks
Dm7
But with the system won
F
A blue collar death
G
He kept his cool with it
Bb
Sustained the scarlet on his neck
F
His hands were calloused with the labor and the ten years spent
G
And all this weight he bears
Bb
Affixed a fixture on his chest
F Bb
He kicks and screams in hopes these final words may still not be
C
his last
D
I’m sick
Of trying
C
These dreams
Bb
Keep dying off
D
My youth
Is lost
C
Count up
Bb
The cost
How can I make it stop
G
They’re all here I’m out there
Bb
They’ve been stuck all these years
D
So tell me
C
Why do I get so down
When I visit my hometown
G
I’m out there
Bb
I’ll move west
In a year
D
So tell me
C
Why do I get so down
When I visit my hometown
Bb
Homebound
D
Homebound