Misc Your Songs - Riley oxford - a seraphs lament

^GHey Dad, ^BmHow goes the war? ^ADid you finally receive what you’ve been ^BmFighting for?

^GAnd how’s mom? ^BmIs she still in distress? ^AAre her eyes still growing soulless as she ^Bmtries to clean up your mess?

^GAs for him, ^BmMy brother divine, ^ADo those sticks and stones still break her bones? ^Bm‘cause he didn’t need those to go and break mine.

^GYou stood, you watched me fall to pieces. ^AThere on the ground, all I could think was ^EHome is burning! Home is burning ^BmInside my mind

^GAs I stood and looked at the girl who’d shattered, ^Alooked at the girl who thought that she mattered, ^Dall I saw was a girl trapped behind a ^BmMountain of glass.

^GSometimes I wished I^D couldn’t see her, ^Athat^Bm girl in the mirror. ^GThe girl who thought her da^Dd would free her, ^Ashe^Bm didn’t know that things were ^Gfalling^D apart. She would ^Astay in the ^Bmdark wonderin^Gg why anyone would^A try to love her broken^Bm parts.

^GHey dad, ^Dlook at me now! ^AI’ve climbed over the mountain ^Bmwhile you’re still “holier than thou”

^GAnd mom, ^DI hope she’s doing alright, ^AAfter I did what she couldn’t do and ^BmI put up my own fight.

^GFor my brother, ^Dis he impressed? ^AI've broken free and I'm not gonna be a ^Bmpawn in his game of chess.

^GI stood, awake, picked up my pieces ^Aoff of the ground, and all I could think was ^ELook at me now! Look at me ^BmI'm your seraph no more.

^GI said goodbye to that girl behind me, ^Aand I looked ahead to the person I could be. ^DI felt the light inside her and ^Bmthe girl faded away.

^GNow I know ^DI'll never be her,^{A Bm}That girl in the mirror. ^GHer life is gone, ^Dher reflection is blurred.^{A Bm}‘cause I finally see my ^GWorld’s open^D doors ^AThey're mine,^Bm they were never yours. While I long for your^G touch, And I know love^A hurts, But it’s not supposed to hurt^Bm that much.

^BmI was understated, undermined, ^ANow I'm liberated, unconfined ^AI finally know that^Bb I deserve happiness too! ^GAnd I know now that happiness can come from^A me, And far away from^Bm you.

^GI know you wish ^Dyou still could see her^A, ^BmBut I threw away the mirror.