Bad Books – I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help, Me Thank You chords

[Verse 1]
C                       F               C"I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks"
C                                       F           CSome bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C                                 F         CThe illusion of protection in the face of a tank

[Chorus]
           DmYou were a student
           EmYou were a soldier
           FYou were a symbol
                GThey made you a martyr

[Verse 2]
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                                       F           CWhen the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                                   F          CWe're so far past civility it feels useless to argue

[Chorus]
               DmBut love isn't passive
             EmA trick or a tactic
              FTried to call action
               GSo, go let 'em have it

[Bridge]
       F       C                   F           CWhen I open my perspective from my fear of the world
        F              C         C/B    CFor the daughter I was trying to raise
         F            C          F            CWith the total sum of everything asleep in my lap
        F              C         C/BI could hear I was the one in my way
         F       C      F                 GYou said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
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[Verse 3]
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                                           F      CYou said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me now
C                                 F           CI have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to

[Chorus]
               DmOh, but it saved me
                   EmOh, but it changed me
                 FIt shaped and remade me
                 GOh, what it gave me

[Bridge 2]
      F             C                  F          CI was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world
        F              C          C/B    CAnd the daughter I was helping to raise
         F            C          F           CWith the total sum of everything awake in my lap
        F                  C         C/BI could hear what you were trying to say
         F       C      F                 GYou said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
         F       C      F                 GYou said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
         F       C      F           GYou said life is sweet, if I let it be

[Outro]
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C                      F               CI love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks