Key: G
Introduction: Bm Bm/A G7+
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Once upon a time there was a girl.
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In her early years she had to learn
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How to grow up living in a war that she called home
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Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm
Em Bm
It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face
Em
Everytime my father's fist would
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Put her in her place
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Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
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Hoping it would be over soon...
G D
Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
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And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
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Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
A Em
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
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And I'm ok...
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I often wonder why I carry all this guilt,
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When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I built
Em Bm
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
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The echo of a broken child screaming "please, no more"
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Daddy, don't you understand the damage you have done?
G F#
For you it's just a memory, but for me it still lives on...
G D
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
G D
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
G D
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
A Em
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday...
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It's not so easy to forget
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All the marks you left along her neck
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When I was thrown against cold stairs
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And ev'ry day afraid to come home,
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In fear of, what I might see next...
G D
Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
G D
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
G D
Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
A Em
And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
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And I'm ok... Mm...
Bm
I'm ok...