[Section I]
F#m A Cb D Fb
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
F#m A Cb D Fb
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
F#m A Cb D Fb
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
F#m A Cb D Fb
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
F#m A Cb D Fb
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
F#m A Cb D Fb
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
F#m A Cb D Fb
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
F#m A Cb D Fb
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
Cb A D Fb
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
F#m D Fb Cb F#m D
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
C# Cb A G# F# F# C# D
F# F# C# D
[Section III]
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
F# C# D C# F# C# D C# F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
F# C# D C# F# C# D C#
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
F#m
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
F#m D
You are my darkness and you understand
Fb
I don’t want anything but your hand
D C#
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
F# F# C# D
F# F# C# D
[Section V]
F# Cb C# Cb F# Cb C# Cb
I can’t stop thinking about you,
F# Cb C# Cb F# Cb C# Cb
And if you’re stripping me down too
F# Cb C# Cb F# Cb C# Cb
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
F# Cb C# Cb F# Cb C# Cb
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
F#m7 Fb
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
D C#
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
F#m7
this obsession is not letting me survive
Fb
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
D
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# D F# F