Tom: G
G
The first thing you see is the light.
C
Then, you focus on a man in a mask with a knife
A C G
as he cuts you away from everything you thought you knew about life.
G
And now you’re in your mother’s arms, wrinkled and wet.
C
You’re gonna spend the rest of your life trying to hard to forget
A C G
that you met the world naked and screaming, and that’s how you’ll leave it.
G
In Riverside Hospital,
C
this was on a July morning, with a push and a pull,
A C G
and this is how I found out I wasn’t quite so invulnerable.
C D G A
It put the fear of God in me when I heard my daddy say,
C D
“one mistake is all that it takes.”
G
G
I ended up at Central School, 1993,
C
and met a certain kid named Sarim at the library.
A C G
He said, theyre aint nothing about this place thats elementary.
G
I learned to play the guitar in the seventh grade
C
in order to convince everyone I was a renegade.
A C G
That’s when I learned, in Glen Rock, everybody calls a spade a spade.
C D G A
I couldn’t fool anyone. I couldn’t even fool myself.
C D
I was just another book on the shelf.
G
Nothing else.
