Take Back Your Name

Take Back Your Name (demo) - MP3

Lyrics

you can keep the ring
i left it on the table
you can keep the table, by the way, that's fine
you can open any mail addressed to both of us
take back your name
it looks awful next to mine

you can keep the sheets
we slept on if you want them
and that undershirt that i liked sleeping in
i am getting the tattoo removed this afternoon
take back your name
it feels awful on my skin

keep my cigarettes 'cause i could use breather
i know i said some awful things but i'm
not taking those back either

you can keep the
memories we made together
of the times we had before this thing went south
you can keep the promises you made to someone else
take back your name
it tastes awful in my mouth

you can keep the ring and when you take the ring back then
take back your name
i won't be speaking it again

Music

Chords

D e 
e A7 D
f# F#7
b b7/A
g#%7 G A7

b E g#%7 e A7

f# F#7
b b7/A G A7 D

Structure

A A B A A'

Notes

I had this idea to write a somewhat humorous song about having to get a tattoo removed after a relationship has ended some time last week, but then working on it today it turned into this. I think it's because I have been listening to "Sad Songs and Waltzes" by Willie Nelson for two days straight. I am just glad to have finished a version of one of these country tunes! I have three or four more in various states of completion, so as long if I can keep starting songs at this rate and finish them a little faster, I'll still have one a month by the end of the year. Gabemcelwain 19:31, 27 February 2009 (PST)