Tom: E E Well I bit on my lip, and I kicked at my toes E No, I don't need your lecture cause your lecture won't show D A E That you told me so I told you so E But I would have managed, I would have been fine E I'd do it myself and I'd do it just my way, D A E I'm a big man for thinking just so. A E But somebody told me that your mother was born A E Oh a wandering woman with a spirit so sworn of the riverside A B E A And it never surprised me but it meant that my love was immobilized B E A Well, it meant that my love was immobilized D A E Cause when it comes, it comes when it does. E But you came in the middle and you fell in my hands E Oh a, wonderful woman and an average man. D A E See that makes me the lucky man E I won't be deserving, but I won't be denied E See, I fell in this position, I will still teach my kids pride D A E Because failure's a part of it all D A E And if failure don't hurt then failure don't work at all A E But somebody told me, our nephew was born A E Oh, a beautiful baby, so smart and so sure of his little self A B E A And in a wonderful way he was making me feel so small B E A Was making me feel so small, B E A Was making me feel so small. D A E And I don't think I've felt this before. A E A In all the reasons to come, well they override my body and, E A E I point to the sun, cause where it's warm is where the wilderness grows A And it grows, and it grows 'till it all becomes nothing A E And nothing is left as you know. A E (We walked it for a thousand years, with broken eyes and salted ears A E Complaining 'bout the weather like we ever had a choice. A E Through all the noise and self abuse, you waited for your fill of truth A E Oh I'm terrified I'll achieve nothing at all.)