Folds, Ben - Brick

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Six am, day after christmas,
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throw some clothes on in the dark.
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Smell of cold, car seat is freezing,
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the world is sleeping.  I am numb.

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Up the stairs to her apartment,
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she is balled up on the couch.
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Her Mom and Dad went down to Charlotte,
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they're not home to find us out.


[Bridge:]
D/B        Dsus2/G   D/B            Dsus2/G
and we drive         now that I have found someone I'm
    D            Dsus2/G    D/B              Dsus2/E   E7
I'm feeling more alone      than I ever have before

[Chorus:]
G        A              Bm      D
she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
G        A              Bm
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
G        A              Bm      D           G A G D
she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly


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they call her name at seven thirty.
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I pace around the parking lot
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I walk down to buy her flowers,
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and sell some gifts that I got.

[Bridge2:]
D/B         Dsus2/G   D/B            Dsus2/G
Can't you see         it's not me you're dying for. Now she's
D                     Dsus2/G      D/B               Dsus2/E     E7
Now she's feeling more alone       than she ever has before


[Chorus:]
G        A              Bm      D
she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
G        A              Bm
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere         G A G D
G        A              Bm      D          G A G A F#m G (piano)
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly



D/B              Dsus2/G        D
as weeks went by it showed that she was not fine
D/B              Dsus2/G          D
they told me son it?s time to tell the truth and
D/B           Dsus2/G           D          D/B    Dsus2/E
she broke down, and i broke down cause i was tired
E7
of lying

D  Dsus2/G  x2



D            Dsus2/G            D               Dsus2/G
driving back to her apartment, for the moment we're alone                                      
       D             Dsus2/G       D/B          Dsus2/E  E7
she's alone.  i'm alone.  now i know it.


[Chorus:]
G        A              Bm      D
she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
G        A              Bm
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere         G A G D
G        A              Bm      D          G A G A F#m G (piano)
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly