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Whalebones

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FmHe felt her curves around his neck
C7Like a yoke he knows, he never forgets.
AbThe way she cut through his bed
Dm7b5Like a snake would bite through a cave of flesh
FmBut he holds her
C7though she's broken
AbHe swear he don't care
Bb9where she's been
(That's the progression throughout the song)
He's tired 
of being human
He wears her close to the bone as though she were his own skin
He shoots from the heart instead of the head
His mouth and his words they rarely connect
He looks to the past and where his tongue's tread
And he knows he's meant the opposite
But she holds him 
like an infant
Though it breaks her in half to know he'll wake like a man
Sold on 
cold indifference
When he reaches for her she's gone
She slips like the wind through blackened sails, but
Who are we to love at all?
I hope you don't mind
If I hang all of my hopes.
If I hang all of my hopes on this time
Although I've been warned
I'll probably get burned
I'd rather get burned than to not try
I hope you don't mind
If I hang all of my hopes
I hang all of my hopes all this time
'Cause you won't let it go

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Whalebones

by Man Man

Lyrics & chords · Original key

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Dm7b5

Bb9

He felt her curves around his neck

Like a yoke he knows, he never forgets.

The way she cut through his bed

Dm7b5

Like a snake would bite through a cave of flesh

But he holds her

though she's broken

He swear he don't care

Bb9

where she's been

(That's the progression throughout the song)

He's tired

of being human

He wears her close to the bone as though she were his own skin

He shoots from the heart instead of the head

His mouth and his words they rarely connect

He looks to the past and where his tongue's tread

And he knows he's meant the opposite

But she holds him

like an infant

Though it breaks her in half to know he'll wake like a man

Sold on

cold indifference

When he reaches for her she's gone

She slips like the wind through blackened sails, but

Who are we to love at all?

I hope you don't mind

If I hang all of my hopes.

If I hang all of my hopes on this time

Although I've been warned

I'll probably get burned

I'd rather get burned than to not try

I hope you don't mind

If I hang all of my hopes

I hang all of my hopes all this time

'Cause you won't let it go

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