[Chords]
Bm: Bm/A: Gmaj7: F#7sus: x24432 x04432 3x0002 242422
Em: F#: G: D: 022000 244322 320003 xx0232
A: C: G/B: Am: x02220 x32010 x20003 x02210
BmBm/AGmaj7F#sus [Verse 1]
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus Once upon a time there was a girl.
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus In her early years she had to learn
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus How to grow up living in a war that she called home
BmBm/A Gamj7 F#7sus Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm
EmBm It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face
Em Everytime my father's fist would
F# Put her in her place
GBm Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
GF# Hoping it would be over soon...
 [Chorus 1]
GD Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
GD And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
AEm And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus And I'm ok...
 [Verse 2]
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus I often wonder why I carry all this guilt,
BmBm/A Gamj7 F#7sus When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I built
EmBm Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
EmF# The echo of a broken child screaming "please, no more"
GBm Daddy, don't you understand the damage you have done?
GF# For you it's just a memory, but for me it still lives on...
 [Chorus 2]
GD Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
GD And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
AEm And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday...
 [Bridge]
CG/BAm It's not so easy to forget
CG/BAm All the marks you left along her neck
CG/BAm When I was thrown against cold stairs
CG/BAm And ev'ry day afraid to come home,
F# In fear of, what I might see next...
 [Chorus 1]
GD Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same
GD And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
GD Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave
AEm And ev'ry morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday
BmBm/AGmaj7F#7sus And I'm ok... Mm...
Bm I'm ok...