how the story ends
Em          G                Em
You sent me pictures of your neck.
            G            Em
How did you want me to react?
            G             Em    G
Oh, did you want me to respond?
Em                 G          Em
Look, we can sleep anyway you want,
        G                Em
with my arms around your arms,
         G                Em   G Em
or I can sleep out in the car.

  G        Em G            Em
I got hung up on the wrong hook.
    G                 Em
I'm tired of knocking wood
    G           Em      G
and not getting let in.
Em                G             Em
Your eyes are two deep pools of mud.
G           Em
Maybe I got stuck.
G          Em      G
Baby I got stuck.

   Em                 G
My arms are tired, my throat is sore,
           Em                    G
you're the only soldier fighting in this war
    Em                 G            Em   G
and I'm the fool still cheering you on.
    Em           G              Em
The poems on the pages that you skipped,
             G                   Em             
they're just meaningless winglessness,
G                Em      G Em
forget that they exist.

    Em              G
Now I'm sure you're keeping score.
           Em                G
You're the same trick I keep falling for,
    Em             G      Em     G
the hurricane that hit my heart.
  Em                              G
I missed the last turn before the interstate,
        Em               G
and the right words, but all too late
           Em             G      Em   G Em
and you're doing great at moving on.

     Em            G           Em
See, hidden in the pages of my notes
     G             Em            G         Em
is a letter that I wrote to you, but never sent,
           G             Em
and that's how the story ends.