debase me

music and lyrics by j. baugher

capo 3rd chord formations:

Dbm7, G

nothing you can say can wake me, shake me,  effectively

from this lengthy reverie

nothing you can show me will throw me, or carry me summarily

back to your reality

F, E 

it’s not a price that you can pay

it’s not a game that you can win no matter how much you play

Dbm7, G

so I stumble through this to this desperate respite

where I take my weary leave

a place where I don’t face misplaced thoughts, let’s not

just stop, no fear, here’s a place where I can breathe

F, E

it’s not a trinket you can buy

it’s not a beast that you can tame, but still I know that you’ll try

BRIDGE

Am, D', E

Dbm7, G

why do you debase me, replace me, please face me when you

grace me with your awful words

your stinging dialogue offends me, bends me, tends to be tragically

linked to things unsaid, unheard

F, E

it’s all the sadness you imply

the poison laced inside your phrases ‘most assures that I’ll die

Dbm7, G

is there some way I can forget you, get you, slit you out of my

veins and brains and system, please?

I feel that if I could untrench you, wrench you from my soul this black hole,

would lose some of its potent squeeze

F, E

it’s not a pill that I can take

I teach the rope until it’s taut and something snaps and it breaks

Am, D', E

C, Am, E