| Em | G | |
| He had a | black eye |
| C | |
| He was | proud of |
| G | |
| Like some of his | friends |
| D | Em | |
| It made him | feel somewhere | outside |
| Em/D | C | C/G | D | G | |
| Of | everything | and everywhere he'd | been |
| Like his brothers |
| He emptied himself |
| And played it safe |
| Like their father |
| He wanted to remember |
| But he almost always |
| Forgot what he was gonna say |
| D | Em | Em/D | C | D | |
| Black eye |
| G | |
| Black | eye |
| When he realized |
| That this one was here to stay |
| He took down |
| All the mirrors in the hallway |
| And thought only of his younger face |
| Black eye |
| Black eye |
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