Am
Four children in a playground 
                                         F
laughing loud and living free
                                  C
A mother watching wondering 
                                         G
what they will grow up to be

Am / F / C / G
Patrick wants to be a doctor 
like the man in white who saved 
his mother from that thing in her breast
and then there’s Dave 
who tries be a fighter,
to make his father proud one day
And Tom gets kicked in school 
because his friends says he is gay

Then there’s Sarah, a little quiet, who only wants one thing,
to get to know her dad, who left when she was young
he even took her mother’s wedding ring

F / G / Am / Am 
On their way home feeling free 
Sarah's laughing, running faster than the wind
But she ain’t looking as she crosses the street
I still hear her mother screaming, looking for a heartbeat
               Dm                  E
iI went to fast, a second’s crash
                                     Am
and Sarah’s dead on the concrete

Am / F / C / G
The same morning there’s a man
finding a letter from his wife, she said
“I’m sorry but I can’t 
find a way to live this life”

He found her in the tightrope
In the bathroom hanging dead
He screamed but couldn’t make a sound
fallen on his knees, he said

“How am I supposed to go on now?”
He took that bottle and then another
Got in the car and drove
Disappearing in the night 

F / G / Am / Am
I still hear that car when Sarah’s crossing the street
And I still hear her mother screaming
looking for a heartbeat
               Dm
It went so fast
                  E
A second’s crash
                                       Am
And Sarah’s dead on the concrete

F / G / Am / Am
Empty bottles and broken dreams
life never goes as you plan it to be
Empty bottles and broken dreams
life never goes as you plan it to be
Empty bottles and broken dreams
I pass that spot every day on the street
         Dm     / E                                     Am
A life-story written in the blood on the concrete