Song For Our Daughter Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][F][G]
[C]Though they

[Verse 1]
may want you
To tread in their [F]trail[C]
Only to see if the path they set
[F]fails[C]
Though they may want you to take
off your [F]clothes[C]
Whatever they think that the
action exposed
[F]

[Verse 2]
[C]Wit[G]h your clothes
[Eb]on the floor[Bb][F]
[C]Taking ad [G]vice from some old[Eb]
bald[Bb]ing [F]bore[C]
You'll ask yourself
Did I want this at [F]all
[Dm]Do you remember what I said
[G]The [Dm]book I left by your [G]bed[Dm]
The words that [G]some surviv[C]or [G]read

[Verse 3]
[C]Lately I've been thinking
About our daughter growing [F]old[Gsus4]
[C]All of the bullshit that she might
be [F]told[C]
[G]There's blood [C]on [G]the floor
[Bb][C][F][G][C]
Maybe [G]not, [C]I believe her for
[F]sure[Dm]
She remembers what [G]I said[Dm]
The book I left by [G]her [Dm]bed
The words that [G]some survivor [C]read[G]

[Interlude 1]
[C]
[F][C][F][C][F][C]

[Verse 4]
Though they may take you [C]For
all you had [F]left
[C]You won't be forgotten
For what you had not done [F]yet

[Verse 5]
[G]So you asked for a kiss fro[C]m God[G]
And you moan child[Gm]less [F]loss[G]
Innocence gone, but it's not for[F]got
[Bb]You'll cut your way through
it somehow
[C]

[Verse 6]
[Dm]
You remember [G]what I said[Dm]
The book you left [G]by your [Dm]bed
The word[F]s that [G]we all have [F]lived
[G]The debt

[Outro 1]
[C][F][C][F]
[C][F][Dm][G]
[Dm][G]