Part One F Bb F C Bb When you were young you were the king of carrot flowers F Bb F C Bb And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees C Bb In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet F Bb F C Bb F Bb F C Bb And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder F Bb F C Bb And your dad would throw the garbage all across the floor C Bb As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for F Bb F C Bb F Bb F C Bb And this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you F Bb F C Bb And from above you how I sank into your soul C Bb Into that secret place where no one dares to go F Bb F C Bb F Bb F C Bb And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking F Bb F C Bb And dad would dream of all the different ways to die C Bb Each one a little more than he could dare to try Part Two Riff e|-----1----------- B|-------1-------1- G|---2---------2--- D|-3---------3----- Riff I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you C Yes I do F I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you C Yes I do And on the lazy days The dogs dissolve and drain away The world it goes And all awaits F The day we are awaiting Part Three F All I know We go through the weight and undertow C I will float until I learn how to swim, F Inside my mother in a garbage bin, C until I find myself again, Bb Again, oh. All I know We go mouths open wide and spit in stuff I will spit until I learn how to speak Up through the doorway as the sideboards creak With them ever proclaiming me, me, oh All I know We go the way the steps fell down and I don’t know, I will shout until they know what I mean, I mean the marriage of a dead dog sing And a synthetic flying machine, machine, oh.