Michigan Rose

Capo: 5th fret

[Intro]
C Am C Am
 
[Verse 1]
        C
I see a flower dress
                           Am
Pressed tight against your bones
      C
And a handkerchief
                              Am
Wrapped so pretty around your throat
    F                        C
Somehow, I’m the one that it chokes
                        G
Ain't it funny how that goes?
 
[Verse 2]
              Am
And there’s a wedding ring
                              C
Long been discarded without a stone
          Am
Plus it’s circumstance
                        F
Billy laughing from his throne
             Dm                 Am                   F
And I’m in a prison cell of the trash I’ve called my home
 
[Chours]
            C
Just let me go
         G
Michigan rose
 
[Verse 3]
        C
I see a pathway now
                        Am
Cracked brick On rotten land
                C
Where Strangers wait their turn
                          Am
To love you better than I can
           F                     C                             G
I hear You laughing from where I stand, how I wish that I were deaf
 
[Verse 4]
              Am
And there’s a beating heart
                       C
Keeping time upon your window cell
        Am
Above a boulevard
                            F
Of cigarettes and chewed up fingernails
             Dm          Am                     F
And would it be so hard, enough wind to fill my sails
 
[Chours]
            C
Just let me go
         G
Michigan rose
 
[Interlude]
C Am C Am F C G Am G
 
[Verse 5]
               C
The Silence is deafening
                            Am
The Stories slain without a sound
              C
The Graves of Endings you refuse to read
                           Am
Torn pages thrown upon the ground
         F                           C                            G
A Jagged trail of what could of been’s of meaningless and nowhere bound
 
[Verse 6]
            Am
And pressed against the dark
                   C
A strand of silver ribbon glows
          Am
A warning spreads from wild hearts
                     F
To tell me what I’ve always known
         Dm              Am                  F
That a broken heart will only be betrayed by hope
 
[Chours]
            C
Just let me go
         G
Michigan rose
 
[Verse 7]
           C
I see your flower dress
                           Am
Pressed tight against your bones
      C
And a handkerchief
                              Am
Wrapped so pretty around your throat
    F                        C                          G
Somehow, I’m the one that it chokes, ain’t it funny how that goes
 
[Outro]
 
C G Am