Intro:(play twice):
BmBm/AGmaj7F#susVerse :1
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus
Once upon a time there was a girl.
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus
In her early years she had to learn
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How to grow up living in a war that she called home
BmBm/A Gamj7 F#7sus
Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm
EmBm
It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face
Em
Everytime my father's fist would
F#
Put her in her place
GBm
Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
GF#
Hoping it would be over soon...
Chorus :1
GD
Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
GD
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD
Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
AEm
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
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And I'm ok...
Verse :2
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus
I often wonder why I carry all this guilt,
BmBm/A Gamj7 F#7sus
When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I built
EmBm
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
EmF#
The echo of a broken child screaming "please, no more"
GBm
Daddy, don't you understand the damage you have done?
GF#
For you it's just a memory, but for me it still lives on...
Chorus :2
GD
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
GD
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
AEm
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday...
Bridge:
CG/BAm
It's not so easy to forget
CG/BAm
All the marks you left along her neck
CG/BAm
When I was thrown against cold stairs
CG/BAm
And ev'ry day afraid to come home,
F#
In fear of, what I might see next...
Chorus: 1
GD
Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
GD
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD
Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
AEm
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus
And I'm ok... Mm...
Bm
I'm ok..
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