Intro
Cm
[Verse]
Cm
Call it what you want
Fm G# Fm G#
I see myself under water
Cm
You call drowning swimming
Fm G# Fm G#
As you watch me swallow water
Cm
Forget what I said
Fm G#
I emerge wet and screaming
Fm G#
bloody murder
[Chorus]
D# A#
And you might say I make myself
Fm G#
Into a marginal victim
D# A#
F baby crying hard until
Fm
I get what I want
G# D#
but there is a friction
A# Fm G# D#
between, What I want and what I need
A# Fm G#
And it is clear that I must scream
Fm G#
So I paddle harder
Fm G#
[Verse]
Cm
Pain exists in ways you inflict
Fm G# Fm G#
The breaks you can’t solder
Cm
Write about me, Live in your own world of hurt
Fm G# Fm G#
Steal the lake from the water
[Chorus]
D# A#
And I’ll conflate the ones who
Fm G#
Made me feel a part of their system
D# A#
Every screaming man gets what
Fm G# D#
He wants and doesn’t know the difference
A# Fm G#
Between what he wants and thinks he needs
D# A# Fm G#
And I always find myself to be
Fm G#
The loving martyr
Fm G#
I’m screaming like thunder