F    G  Em  C    Am

[Verse 1]
         F
I was sitting alone again in the wheelchair
G                           Em
Stomach in reverse, blood pouring from my lips
         C
To an audience of 30 in the waiting room
   Am
In all the world, I was thinking of you

[Verse 2]
      F
The nurse, the priest, and the looks on their faces
            G             Em
When they came to me, I couldn't shake the feeling
           C
That they knew something, something I didn't
         Am
I was trembling, and clinging to nothing

[Pre-chorus]
        F
Only breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       G                        Em
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       C
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       Am
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up

[Chorus]
      F
It's been 3 months and a week, I should be better
         G                            Em
But you visit each night in my sleep, and when I wake
               C
It's just the dirt cold feel of my sheets
              Em            Am
I've been a toddler looking for some hands to reach
     F
The birds don't sigh when they sing, and that's all right
                 G                     Em
It's just your voice on the phone has been the only light
        C                                            Em
At the top of the world, where I have been drowning under
          Am
Careful blowing from your voice every night

[Instrumental]
F    G  Em  C    Am

[Verse 3]
      F
Some days I laid in the hospital bed
        G            Em
Just waiting for my body to stomach
         C
Only sustenance from the words you said
              Am
But dying, wondering how it all fell apart

[Verse 4]
         F
And of course it did, I was trying to fix something
         G                    Em
That I could not fix, I was blind from the beginning
         C
I was fumbling 'round on the earth so thin
       Am
But wondering how I kept falling in

[Pre-chorus]
        F
Only breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       G                        Em
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       C
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up
       Am
I'm breaking my neck trying to keep my head up

[Chorus]
      F
It's been 3 months and a week, I should be better
         G                            Em
But you visit each night in my sleep, and when I wake
               C
It's just the dirt cold feel of my sheets
              Em            Am
I've been a toddler looking for some hands to reach
     F
The birds don't sigh when they sing, and that's all right
                 G                     Em
It's just your voice on the phone has been the only light
        C                                            Em
At the top of the world, where I have been drowning under
          Am
Careful blowing from your voice every night