Heirloom Pain keyboard

Heirloom Pain

• Intro

HEIRLOOM PAIN
As recorded by NIKI
(From the 2024 Album BUZZ)


Capo 2nd fret


Intro
C


Verse 1
C                                                Am    C
Build a pillow barricade so the ghosts can't get to me
           F                C
Twenty-something instincts, feel like a deadbeat dad
                                                 Am      C
Never there when it counts and puts you right in therapy
          F                        C                      G
Life is a gamble, baby, and you'll have to live with that


Pre-Chorus
        Am                    G
Oh, but I'll be fine 'cause I always end up
C                 F
Just fine, then I call a friend up
Am                 G
That's just how it is


Chorus
      C
And I wake up tired and vaguely sore
Am                  C
Stir a pot when I'm feeling bored
F              C                 G
Full-sending a lot, only halfway sure
C
Walking around with heirloom pain
Am               C
Dad's temper and Mom's mistakes
F           C                        G
And always afraid to fall flat on my face
    C                Am
But doing it anyway
                 F  C  G
I'm doing it anyway


Verse 2
C                                    Am
Walls up to the skies, many men have marched around
   E                  F                     C                G
To no avail, there's Achilles, then there's his God-forsaken heel


Pre-Chorus
  Am                G
I do the dishes and tend the garden
C                 F
Soften up where I used to harden
                   G    C
And take a moonlit walk


Chorus
      C
And I wake up tired and vaguely sore
Am                  C
Stir a pot when I'm feeling bored
F              C                 G
Full-sending a lot, only halfway sure
C
Walking around with heirloom pain
Am                   Em
Grandma left but her heartache stayed
F                   C                G
And now I'm always afraid to take up space
             C      G  Am
Yet doing it anyway
    Em           F    C  G
I'm doing it anyway, oh


Outro
C
People fall in love and fuck up
         Am                        C
And have kids who fall in love and fuck up
         F                     C
Who have kids that fall in love
         G
And have you
C
People fall in love and fuck up
C
We all fall in love and fuck up
                                  N.C.
You will fall in love and fuck up too

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