Song: Grace
Artist: Dear and the Headlights
Album: Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
This band is underrated and no one seems to tab them.. so i thought i'd contribute. (:
is my first tab so be nice. but i'm pretty sure this is at least 90% correct.
corrections and suggestions are welcomed.
Enjoy!
Intro:
Verse 1:
Shaking my teeth loose on your table
The dullest white squares I'll never be
Now that you've picked each one apart you can't
look at me
I'll probably lose you now
But at least the ones I have still sparkle
Refrain:
(hold)
Chorus:
Putting on your makeup everyday before he wakes up
So he could stomach your face now easier than he
could without
Yeah this is love
This is all that you could want
(hold)
Open equals heavier
Hold your hand out palm side up
Open, empty, light enough
Minutes all turn to months
This is one thing we have all learned
Equations always make up a sum
But it doesn't add up
Verse 2:
(Repeat Verse 1 chords)
Signing up for that second semester
Because you won't marry me without the degree
Once I fix things up right you wont be so
embarrassed of me
But I'll never make it now
But at least looking in the mirror wont feel like
lying
Refrain:
Posing for your still visions
Acedemic postcard prisons
Raise your chin, love
Purged a poem I swore was finished
Heaping lines half chewed unconscious
Settle on a plot, chalk another loss
Stage set for
Chorus:
Breathing and choking on swallowed conversations
Clutching and crawling for constant validation
Still nailed in the ruins of corporate
co-dependence
Still stuck on the thought that you're the one
exception
All the while the same
I'm worried that the purpose is
How I look, not how I lived
Let's get dolled up and play pretend
Cause nothing stays honest when
Every thought is cursed with intent
A pulse covered in skin and words covered in lips
The taste of regret as it leaves your stomach
Coating your tongue with every noun
Watery eyes the only thing that makes sense now
Spitting your insides out
Start over
Start over
Start over
Start over
Start over
End on B.
There you go. (: