Defeater – But Breathing chords ver. 3

F Dm

FUnwanted, but breathing.
In the next room, sleeping.
DMy mother, she’s crying and my father’s been drinking.
       F                                           FIn our run down apartment, where the roof is still leaking.
DmHe’s cursing and cussing, it’s just the whiskey talking.

A#                                 FI’ve got lots of memories like this one.
A#                                  FOf empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome.
A#                                   A#When I think back to all of it, it’s all too much, it’s all too much when you’re 
just a little kid.

F Dm F Dm

F                                   FMy little brother, just a newborn baby.
Dm                                             DmIn the image of my mother, she says he’s a blessing.
F                                     FBut not to my father, oh how he hates him.
Dm                                        Dm“An undeserving mistake.” He calls him a burden.

A#                             FI’ve got lots of memories like this one.
A#                             FOf picking sides and picking fights between them.
Dm7                                   Dm7When I think back to all of it, it’s all too much when you’re just a little kid.
A#When I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream,
A#one that follows you and haunts you endlessly.
FOoh

(only drums and vocals until the Dm)
Broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating,
Dmthe addiction, and the lying, and the promise of leaving.
FWhile my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him.
    DmAnd Us two kids were born in to a family, not a fortune.

F Dm F Dm F Dm F