Harp intro         2x

[Verse 1]

             
Goodbye to a g

  
ood friend
             
You can’t see 

  
the gun to my 

head
             
You can’t see 

  
lies bleeding 

through my wor

ds
             
You step away 

              
like I’m a cop

    
perhead
             
You step away 

              
like I’m a cop

    
perhead

(Hammer up from open EMaj to E / C)

[Verse 2]

             
With words not

  
 mine, I strik

e the vein
             
I begin wishin

  
g I had walked

 instead
             
Left to no win

  
 choices to si

lence sacred v

oices
             
Making me feel

              
 maybe I am th

    
e copperhead
            
Making me feel

          
 maybe I am th

e copperhead

[Chorus]

            
A snake in the

          
 grass hides f

or a reason
            
What a blessin

              
g it is to hib

            
ernate for a s

      
eason

            
Simply useless

              
 puppets, give

    
n words to say
            
And I wish I w

              
ere the snake,

            
 if but to cra

      
wl away

      

[Verse 3]

             
So goodbye to 

          
my good friend
             
Will we meet a

          
gain after wha

t I have said?
             
And if we do, 

          
will you accep

t my words
             
As more than t

          
he hiss of a c

opperhead?
            
As more than t

          
he bite* of a 

copperhead?

[Chorus]

            
A snake in the

          
 grass hides f

or a reason
            
What a blessin

              
g it is to hib

            
ernate for a s

      
eason
            
Simply useless

              
 puppets, give

    
n words to say
            
And I wish I w

              
ere the snake,

            
 if but to cra

      
wl away