Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Am
Em
G
C
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Em
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Em
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C
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Em
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Verse 1
Em
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
C
Am
cause you're kind
Am
C
Am
that robbed you blind
Em
G
C
Am
Em
C
Am
Of love
Em
Am
C
Am
that was
Em
Am
Em
Am
safe and so you learned to fight
Verse 2
Am
C
Dm
D
What do I do with this stuff?
C
Dsus4
D
called you up
G
Am
G
C
I had a terrible case of the past
D
G
C
I didn't know how to get it off
Am
G
I didn't know how to get it off
C
Verse 3
D
Am
G
And you took
D
C
"I don't know what I'm doing
Verse 4
C
Em
D
Am
C
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
Em
D
You said was a paradox
Am
C
because you're kind
Am
Em
But withstood a childhood
D
Am
C
Am
that robbed you blind
Em
Am
Of love that was safe and so
C
Am
you learned to fight
Verse 5
Em
D
C
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
Em
D
You said was a paradox be
C
Am
cause you're kind
D
C
Am
that robbed you blind
Em
D
Of love that was safe and so
C
Am
you learned to fight
Verse 6
Am
C
Dsus4
D
What do I do with this stuff?
Am
C
It seems like yesterday I
Dsus4
D
G
was in love
Am
Bm
I kept of covering the soft
C
Am
parts up
D
G
C
I didn't know how to get them off
Verse 7
Am
D
G
Am
C
And you took your machete
D
C
"I don't know where I'm going
Am
G
I just know that i'm heading from
Em
"see
But
Am
C
Am
you believe me"
Verse 8
Em
D
C
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
Em
D
You said was a paradox be
C
Am
cause you're kind
Em
D
But withstood a childhood
C
Am
that robbed you blind
Em
D
Of love that was safe and so
C
Am
you learned to fight
Verse 9
Em
C
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
D
C
Am
because you're kind
D
C
Am
that robbed you blind
C
Em
you learned to fight
Verse 10
Em
Am
I have never liked the box of knives
Em
D
Am
I took it to the oceanside the day you died
Em
D
I stood out on the dock
Am
C
No matter how hard I tried
Am
Em
I couldn't drop them in
D
C
Am
And I collapsed and cried:
Verse 11
Dsus4
G
Am
C
It seems like yesterday you
Dsus4
D
were alive
Am
G
C
And it's as if you never really died
D
G
C
Am
And it's as if you never really died
Verse 12
And you said
You said
"see?
Em
D
You get the drill now, don't you?
C
Am
It's not a will or won't
G
C
So I took your machete
"see
Em
G
It's just like anti matter
C
Am
It's dumbo's magic feather
G
C
You don't need me here to cut you
Em
D
D
You don't need me here to cut you
C
Free"
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