[Section I]
Fm G# A# C# Eb
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Fm G# A# C# Eb
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Fm G# A# C# Eb
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Fm G# A# C# Eb
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Fm G# A# C# Eb
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Fm G# A# C# Eb
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Fm G# A# C# Eb
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Fm G# A# C# Eb
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
A# Ab C# Eb
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Fm C# Eb A# Fm C#
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
C A# Ab G F F C C#
F F C C#
[Section III]
F C C# C F C C# C
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
F C C# C F C C# C
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
F C C# C F C C# C
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
F C C# C F C C# C
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
F C C# C F C C# C
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
F C C# C F C C# C
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
F C C# C F C C# C
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
F C C# C F C C# C
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
F C C# C F C C# C
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
F C C# C F C C# C
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
F C C# C F C C# C
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
F C C# C F C C# C
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
F C C# C F C C# C
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
F C C# C F C C# C
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
F C C# C F C C# C
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
F C C# C F C C# C
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
F C C# C F C C# C
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
F C C# C F C C# C F C C# C F C C# C
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
F C C# C F C C# C
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Fm
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Fm C#
You are my darkness and you understand
Eb
I don’t want anything but your hand
C# C
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
F F C C#
F F C C#
[Section V]
F A# C A# F A# C A#
I can’t stop thinking about you,
F A# C A# F A# C A#
And if you’re stripping me down too
F A# C A# F A# C A#
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
F A# C A# F A# C A#
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Fm7 Eb
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
C# C
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Fm7
this obsession is not letting me survive
Eb
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
C#
I am destroying all I have to let this burn
C F
this little flame is not so dangerous on it’s own.
[Riff]
F C C# F F