My Good Deed

G Bm Em E F# G A I tried to save a girl I truly loved and didn't quite know how to help her. G Bm Em E F# G A So now she's sleeping as her parents up above cry over things that they can't tell her. Am D Em And when I did my good deed I thought I'd feel unbroken gladness, Am D Em B7 but standing in the street alone I just felt sinking sadness. C G Bm Em Girl, your dad will not us bless, so hang up your veil and dress. C G D D7 Look at me and take one guess where the best-intentioned love will lead us. G Bm Em E F# G A I once felt a feeling fully through, though I knew I shouldn't feel it, G Bm Em E F# G A because to act on it I'd be a person who should be slapped into a straitjacket. Am D Em So every time it comes around I just let it die inside me. Am D Em B7 You said, I only come around because I just need you to hide me, C G Bm Em so we knelt in those dead weeds, sticks and sharp rocks cutting into our knees. C G D D7 And I thought that we would freeze, but there was just too much warm blood in our bodies. G Bm Em E F# G A I'm not going to make you take the pills, though you should really think about it. G Bm Em E F# G A The fire by which we both were almost killed glowed so beautiful, don't doubt it Am D Em B7 but we have to make a choice now; can we glow without it? C G Bm Em There's a space I tried to fill, but I'm seeing now I never will. C G D D7 You fly around while I stand still, until I slowly just get smaller and smaller. G Bm Em E F# G A I tried to save a girl I truly loved, and I never would desert her. G Bm Em E F# G A When we both found out that I was dreaming of the day I thoroughly could hurt her. Am D Em And I saw myself inside her eyes; this shrinking would-be savior Am D Em B7 resented her for never needing me and I couldn't wait just to betray her. C G Bm Em So we drove back to her place from the temporary home that we had made, C G and I stepped back into the street, D D7 feeling the fullest moment of my life slowly shrink away G from me.