[Verse 1]
    Em        D
That summer, a bad joke
                  E
about Tom Hanks’ face
C                    G
That summer we had meant
       E               D
to take some space
     E            Am
a break from the cohabitation
  E                              Am
born of ardor, desperation

Am Am Am E E


[Verse 2]
               Em             Am
But your new roommates enabled
    Em            A
your addiction; waiting tables
    D        G
and a social softball league
G          Em
didn’t make me friends
         E            Am
and you taught me again, again


[Chorus]
        C         G
without me there
E           C         Dm
you’d abdicate survival tasks
E        C
oh, you barely had to ask
      E
I took you in
        Am
you took me over
      E
I took you in
    Am
you took me over


[Verse 3]
Em                     D
Pugnacious with the world
                           E
the metal garbage can you hurled
                C        D
across the concrete frightened me
    E            Am        Am Am
I fixed it, tailed farther behind
    E                Am
Why sign a second lease, resigned?


[Chorus]
       C        G            E         D
we blamed the meds, you’d to-o-oy with dying
E           C                      Dm
pick me up from work, commit to trying
Dm    Dm    D
   Em
I took you in
       Am
you took me over
    Dm
roots tangled, ill
          A
still grew clover


[Bridge]
Em         D
where was the you
E        D
who’d sing me silly lullabies?
C        G            A
my foozball buddy, biggest fan, hiking scout
Dm
musta got by on his credit
Am        E
and my terror of your death
C                G
Why else four more seasons til I got out?

G G G  D  Em Em Em  Dm


[Chorus]
    Em
you threatened to
 Am
walk into traffic
Dm
still six more months to turn me sapphic
Em
I took you in
      Am
you took me over
        Dm
our roots tangled, ill
      G
still grew clover


[Chorus 2]
      Em         D
Did I lift up my wing
E        D
say, let’s share everything
C       Em
or had you taken veins
G/B        G/B
and feathers ransom?
G/B
        Em                     D    E
I came to feel your pain in tandem

    Em
I took you in
        Am
you took me over
     Em
I took you in
           D
four-year hangover
         Em
I took you in
         Am
you took me over
       Em
I took you in
    G/B        G/B
that season’s over

G/B G/B D D A