Do You Understand What Has Happened To You

D A E D A Today I remembered all the things that I've forgotten E Black mold on the bath rim D Haggard bike frames leaned against everything A Annie's anarchist brochures on the sill E Beaded cotton creeping across the blankets D A And I saw you in the dead yard E Spray painting haiku on a trash mattress Flapping your lashes at street cats D A When every other second we were fumbling through the interview E But every other second I was kissing you D Ba, ba, ba A Ba, ba, ba E Do you understand what has happenеd to you? D Ba, ba, ba A Ba, ba, ba E G Please write down what you know to bе true D Or write down your name E Or your favorite band G D E And if you start feelin' funny Don't look at your hands D A Today I remembered all the things that I'd forgotten E How guests arrived at random intervals D Pitiful, a little sick of their own squats A Lookin' to drink beer in front of E Some different pictures on the wall for a change D Now Annie'd ended up downstairs A With the Tyler dropouts E D Philosophizing negative space and the inherent value of medical waste A E But I'm, uh, I'm pretty sure most of those kids Work on the docks these days D A Inevitably Ava would appear E Both arms binding some weird bulging bag Bm Of freezer pizzas and romaine A And everyone was always owing Ava something E Like eight dollars in change Depending on how many were present D Ba, ba, ba A Ba, ba, ba E Do you understand what has happenеd to you? D Ba, ba, ba A Ba, ba, ba E G Please write down what you know to bе true D Or write down your name E Or your favorite band G D E And if you start feelin' funny Don't look at your hands D A Today I remembered all of the things that I'd forgotten E That somewhere along the way We'd maxed our novelty allotment D A The blow flies started buzzing E And we moved out of the basement apartment D A We crammed the secondhand furniture into her car E Cracked paint flaked off in fat chips on the back seat D A With swollen trash bags of t-shirts, swimsuits, old shoes E A violin bow, sticking out the window D A Annie gathered and bagged the unread mail E As I milled about memorizing light switches, water stains D A E Dropped the key in the letterbox and drove off -END