[Section I]
Gm A# C D# F
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Gm A# C D# F
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Gm A# C D# F
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Gm A# C D# F
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Gm A# C D# F
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Gm A# C D# F
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Gm A# C D# F
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Gm A# C D# F
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
C A# D# F
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Gm D# F C Gm D#
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
D C A# A G G D D#
G G D D#
[Section III]
G D D# D G D D# D
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
G D D# D G D D# D
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
G D D# D G D D# D
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
G D D# D G D D# D
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
G D D# D G D D# D
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
G D D# D G D D# D
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
G D D# D G D D# D
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
G D D# D G D D# D
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
G D D# D G D D# D
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
G D D# D G D D# D
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
G D D# D G D D# D
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
G D D# D G D D# D
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
G D D# D G D D# D
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
G D D# D G D D# D
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
G D D# D G D D# D
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
G D D# D G D D# D
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
G D D# D G D D# D
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
G D D# D G D D# D G D D# D G D D# D
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
G D D# D G D D# D
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Gm
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Gm D#
You are my darkness and you understand
F
I don’t want anything but your hand
D# D
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
G G D D#
G G D D#
[Section V]
G C D C G C D C
I can’t stop thinking about you,
G C D C G C D C
And if you’re stripping me down too
G C D C G C D C
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
G C D C G C D C
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Gm7 F
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
D# D
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Gm7
this obsession is not letting me survive
F
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
D#
I am destroying all I have to let this burn
D G
this little flame is not so dangerous on it’s own.
[Riff]
G D D# G F