Against The Kitchen Floor

[Intro]
G Am C D7 C#7 D7

[Verse]
G
I don’t owe you my heart
Am
And I don’t owe you my body
D7
But you should know that I’m sorry
G D7
For being careless with you

G
Lord knows I owed you more
Am
That I’m pretty sure I ever could give anybody
D7
But I can’t pin down what normal people want from foreign objects,
G G7
Bottom shelf erotic products, like me

[Pre-chorus]
Am D7
So I could hold your hand but keep you at arms’ length, oh,
Bm Em
Hang me from a branch too high to climb and shake
Am
Less rare than scarce, less diamond than rough
D7
Unlikely to be more than the coal you failed to crush

[Chorus]
G C
And I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i swear
G
I’m really trying
Am
Get it together, Will, know and do better
D7
It just don’t come natural to me to think that you’d want me for me

G G7 C
I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i swear
G
I’m really trying
Am
Oh, I’m sorry, I promise, I’m doing my best
D7
I just haven’t learned how to be human as you are yet

G Am C D7 C#7 D7

[Verse]
G
I still don’t know who you are
Am
I only know that I’m still lonely
D7
That morbid sort where even company can’t cure me
G
And the more you reassure the less I trust

G
But still you gave me your heart
Am
I only gave you my body
D7
Honestly thought nobody’d want it
G G7
Let alone notice it’s gone and so I left it home but now, now, now, now

[Pre-chorus]
Am D7
I keep a locket with a picture on the back of my head
Bm Em
Oh, monkey wrench my side view mirrors, ghost my friends
Am
I’ve lived more lives than enough, I haven’t died quite as much
D7
But I’m not a real person just the shit you can’t make up, and

[Chorus]
G C
I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i swear
G
I’m really trying
Am
I’m just as exposed if I take off my clothes
D7
When we make the closest thing to love that I’m capable of and

G G7 C
I-i-i-i-i-i-i don’t know why you would care
G
But I’m really trying
Am
Oh, I’m sorry, I promise I’m doing my best
D7
I just haven’t learned how to be human as you are yet

[Bridge]
G Am C D7 G Am C D7 D7 D7sus4

D7 D7sus4
Did I really

Am D7
Have any of that gravity? Maybe you’re quicksand
Bm Em
Because I really couldn’t tell how deep my footprints went
Am
The vertex of my redemption arc, the searching of that virgin heart
D7
I’m catatonic in your arms, cryin’ “How did I cause so much harm?”

Am
I’m down pounding my head
D7
Against the kitchen floor
Bm Em
Apologizing for my life and ever entering yours
Am
Don’t say “I’m sorry, but this can’t go on”, I know you’ve got scars of your own
D7
But hide my knives before you go, I’ll either live or die alone

[Chorus]
G C
I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i swear
G
That I will die trying
Am
I’m still in the process but I’m making progress
D7
I promise I honestly wanna prove improve is possible

G G7 C
I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i swear
G
I’m so fucking sorry
Am
I’m not a good person, I’m barely a person at all
D7 G
But someday I’ll be perfect and I’ll make up for it all