Key: G
Introduction: Am D
G Bm Am C
As frail hinges pivot on a case's door, commemorative
G Bm Am C
Souvenirs from places, containers changed with each occasion
G Bm Am C
A cellophane-encased display of paper certificates
G Bm Am C
To credit years of service, a tool of central enterprises
G Bm Am C
The early hope for permanence, the words, the rings, consistency
G Bm Am C
The social security, a miracle's high tragedy
Am D G Em
A thought mistaken for a memory, clear the dust from the smiles in boxes
Am D G Em
Pass the patterned wall recall their voices
G Bm Am C
A local post will list your friends in order of disappearance
G Bm Am C
Lawn scattered tins feed birds a portion baked for absent guests
G Bm Am C
And the mass-edition icon god sent comfort, your salvation
G Bm Am C
But who grants absolution for sins that never were committed?
G Bm Am C
Tension makes a tangle of each thought becomes an inconvenient
G Bm Am C
Sound, as it never penetrates as servile edges break and fade the
Am D G Em
Thought mistaken for a memory, a dress length, assassination
Am D G Em
A fractured family tie another christening, a christening
Am D G Am Bm C G Am Bm C
A fractured family tie and another christening, christening, christening
Am D G Em
Thought mistaken for a memory, a dress length, assassination
Am D G Em
A fractured family tie another christening, a christening
Am D G Am Bm C
A fractured family tie and another christening
G Am Bm C G Am Bm C G Am Bm C
Christening, christening, christening