2 Bars to break

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Matthew P. Haubert

(E♭m)
We sit like evidence
On opposite sides of the bed

(B♭m)
Your eyes won’t land on me
They trace your phone instead

(G♭)
I line up apologies
Like pills a clockwork take

(B♭m)
You breathe like you’re leaving

(E♭m)
But you stay
long enough that we both break


Pre-Chorus

(A♭m)
There’s a tremor in your voice

(Cb)
When you say my name
Like our love will collapse
If you don’t say


Chorus

(G– let ring)
We don’t say innocent
(D♭)
We don’t say blame
(E♭m)
We just count the damage
(A♭m)
And call it a day

(G♭)
I loved you the best
(D♭)
Atleast I think I tried to

(E♭m – pull back hard)
But me loving you
(A♭m – low, unresolved)
Was a crime for two


Instrumental Space

(E♭m – single notes, right hand only)
2 bars. Almost nothing.


Verse 2

(E♭m)
I learned how to disappear
Before I learned speak

B♭m)
Bottled it hidden I said for saftey
You call it decay

(G♭)
You wanted the man
I kept promising you everyday

(B♭m)
I kept giving you lies
And swearing they were that man, and he would stay


Pre-Chorus

(A♭m)
Your hands start shaking

(Cb major)
When the anger gets louds
We are both on trial now
And there’s no way out so we say


Chorus

(G♭)
We don’t say innocent
(D♭)
We don’t say wrong
(E♭m)
We let the silence
(A♭m)
Finish the song

(G♭)
I needed you
(D♭)
to try to fell anything
(E♭m)
You needed a man
(A♭m)
with a future in hand


Bridge

(B♭m – rare lift, very soft)
and if I could erase
Every broken wall
I think we would have still
Ended up here

(A♭m)
I’m not asking forgiveness
(E♭m)
I know what I’ve done
(D– hold, unresolved)
I just hate
That I know you were you were the one


Final Chorus

(G– fuller, but restrained)
We don’t say innocent
We don’t say free
We just let the truth out
put its hands on me

(E♭m – drop to almost nothing)
You walk away clean
(A♭m → E♭m)

And I stay guilty


Outro

(E♭m – low octave, let decay)
Turn out the light
Leave the door cracked for the night
I know that your leaving

But give me that hope youll come back


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3 responses to “2 Bars to break”

  1. Reading this felt like listening through the walls of a song that is still being written. The chords and words sit beside each other without explanation, so I found myself imagining the space between them rather than trying to pin down a narrative.

    What stayed with me was the unresolved tension in those lines and the way the quiet instrumental space seemed as important as anything sung. The effect was less about closure and more about lingering on what is withheld.

    1. thank you for your comment, yes this is a brand new song just written, not really a finished pieced, more of a poem prose.

    2. also, the chords I usually put in are just starting points like a lead sheet, for the verses, I would do alot of different things between, Ill soon make a page with my sheet music I think you will be interesting in alot more, more theoretical and classical engraving

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