Gang of Youths - Do not let your spirit wane

^ASo I have this dream, it comes like twice in a week ^EmIt’s been so for years and years on repeat ^GAnd since then I’ve not had a full night of sleep ^D'Cause it plays out the same way ^A I^D live w^Dbmith this girl and our kid ^Em I’m as happy as a pig rolled in shit

^GIt’s postcard, I’m settled, a pirate no more ^DA gypsy at most with no mortgage ^AIt’s boring but in the most exquisite of ways ^EmNo carcinogenic and humdrum malaise ^GAnd it’s strange, all the things that I’ve run from ^DAre the things that completeness could come from

^ASo anyways, we’re happy and impossibly so ^EmIt’s earth and it’s heaven, all simpatico ^GFloorboards laid out and the walls painted white ^DMy dream self and I like the same things ^AThey’re all set to leave and I kiss them goodbye ^EmThey go and get groceries or something and I ^GAm drinking alone in the basement ^D And pray I’m not hallucinating

^ADo not let this thing you got go to waste ^EmDo not let your heart be dismayed ^GIt’s here by some random disclosure of grace ^DFrom some vascular, great thing ^ALet your life grow strong and sweet to the taste ^Em'Cause the odds are completely insane ^GDo not let your spirit wane ^DDo not let your spirit wane ^ANo, ^Gno^D, no, no, no, no

^AIn love, I am careful to mostly reserved ^EmAnd this dream is a life I don’t think I deserve ^GMy girl and our kid are impossibly bright ^DAnd I am just drunk in my basement ^ASee a car, see my girl and look at our kid ^EmApproaching a corner, with rain and a skid ^GThen a phone call to me from the ICU ward ^D"Sir, I’m so sorry to say this” ^AI’m walking alone through the hospital door ^EmID their bodies, collapse to the floor ^GNumb and relentlessly broken ^DThen I wake up the very next moment

^ADo not let this thing you got go to waste ^EmDo not let your heart be dismayed ^GIt’s here by some random disclosure of grace ^DFrom some vascular, great thing ^ADo not let this thing you got go to waste ^EmThe pain and the beauty, so strange ^GDo not let your spirit wane ^DDo not let your spirit wane

^ACut me out, ^{Dbm Gbm}take me home M^Dy hand^As are tired, ^Dbm my legs^Gbm are broke ^D And the ruptured c^Ahrome plus the deep unk^Dnown ^{Gbm D}Turn my insides^A out and^Dbm my head ^Gbmface down ^D C^Aut me out, ^{Dbm Gbm}take me home ^DMy hands^A are tired, ^Dbm my^Gbm legs are broke ^D And the rup^Atured chrome plus the^D deep unknown ^{Gbm D}Turn my insides o^Aut and my h^Dbmead ^Gbmface down

^ADo not let this thing you got go to waste ^EmDo not let your heart be dismayed ^GIt’s here by some random disclosure of grace ^DFrom some vascular, great thing ^AGet the fuck out of your head if it says ^Em“Stay cold and be deathly afraid” ^GDo not let your spirit wane ^DDo not let your spirit wane