A Pound Of Flesh

Intro 2x: C  Am

C
My feet plow on from light to dawn
               Am
My empty belly and my body aches ain't hard to take
            G        C
Next to the weight I carry in my chest
                                     Am
A pound of flesh could never tip the scale that I've made
                                G         F
I should have stayed, but I was never wise
                   G                         Am
I hear your voices in the wind that cuts the night
      F                   G                               C
And I pray to whatever is listening things will be alright

                   Am
Oh, my boy, you're alive
                   G
Your heart's still beating
   C                         Am
So don't you mind, don't you mind
             G
We all drift sometimes

F                     G                        Am
I can still hear your feet as you ran from the house
            F            G
But knowing you won't be back
        Am                    Em
Doesn't mean that I will stop waiting
F                         G                         Am
You told me then: Hold me down or hold me up to the fire
              F            G
But don't you dare hold me back

( C  Am ) (x2)

F                G                           Am
I see your faces in the clouds that scar the night
      F                  G                               C

And I pray to whoever is listening things will be alright

     Am                      G
Then today I wake up feeling easy
         C                        F
And find I'm on the more familiar roads
        Am               G
I got a darkness wrapped inside me
           C                       F
But now it ain't so hard to let it go
   Am                           G
So keep a candle burning in the window
           C
I'm almost home