Darren Hanlon – Butterfly Bones
Tabbed by Kate
Tuning: Standard
Capo on 5th
When one year ends and another b
egins and the sk
y is a shower of sparks
With your skinny girls arms with
the hairs on their ends like exclamation marks
Well I admit I was scared, I fel
t unprepared if
I need you tell me where you’ll be
You said “I
t’s not
surprisi
ng, just
look to
the hor
izon, it’s the circle in the middle is me”
A week in the hospital, always s
ick when you wer
e little, you were brittle like butterfly bones
I wish I had been there to run a
comb through your hair – it always smelt like smoke and pine cones
But then the devil shot through,
you got stronge
r as you grew but they treat you like you’re never
the same
You filled your
one good
lung an
d bit do
wn hard
on your
tongue just to keep yourself from going
insane
(Not sure about this part…)
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
(Interlude, the verses chords, Darren does much finger picking here in a guitar solo)
(Middle 8)
And the rides ke
ep on turning
And our lives in
sist on turning
And my mind it k
eeps on learning
But I can smell
something burning mmm
Now in a minute or less I tried
to confess every
single thing I’ve learnt so far
In a skirt that you’d stolen as
the road was unrolling and unreelin’ ‘neath the wheels of the car
No I haven’t been drinking, I do
n’t know what I
was thinking but it really don’t mean a thing
She said “d
o me a f
avour if
you wan
na be my
saviour
then you’re gonna have to wait ’til the spring”
She said “d
o me a f
avour if
you wan
na be my
saviour
then you’re gonna have to learn how to sing”
Thanks, Justin, for getting me hooked on Darren Hanlon!
Enjoy! 🙂