"These Arms" by DwightYoakam
Written by Dwight Yoakam
From the album "A Long Way Home"
Warner Bros. Records 1998
A E A
A
These arms that hang here by my side
E
These arms that ache to open wide
A
D
Useless arms with nothing left to do
A E
A
Since these arms stopped holding you
These arms are useless now to me
They let you go, so how good could they be?
Just foolish arms for which I have no need
A pair of arms that grew weak and set love free
Bridge:
DAE
Reaching out to embrace
a vacant memory
DAE
Finding just the empty space
around what's left of me
EGA
Two arms that failed completely
D
Arms both scarred so deeply
B
E
Keep paying love's cost
with each tragic sway
GUITAR SOLO OVER VERSE CHORDS
Bridge:
Trying meekly to assist my struggle with the truth
Unable to resist what tears still make us view
Two arms that failed completely
Arms both scarred so deeply
Keep paying love's cost with each tragic sway
These arms that hang here by my side
These arms that ache to open wide
Useless arms with nothing left to do
Since these arms stopped holding you
D
A E(stop)
A
Since these arms stopped holding
you
Kevin Ross