[Section I]
Em G A C D
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Em G A C D
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Em G A C D
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Em G A C D
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Em G A C D
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Em G A C D
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Em G A C D
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Em G A C D
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
A G C D
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Em C D A Em C
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
B A G F# E E B C
E E B C
[Section III]
E B C B E B C B
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
E B C B E B C B
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
E B C B E B C B
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
E B C B E B C B
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
E B C B E B C B
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
E B C B E B C B
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
E B C B E B C B
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
E B C B E B C B
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
E B C B E B C B
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
E B C B E B C B
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
E B C B E B C B
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
E B C B E B C B
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
E B C B E B C B
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
E B C B E B C B
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
E B C B E B C B
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
E B C B E B C B
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
E B C B E B C B
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
E B C B E B C B E B C B E B C B
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
E B C B E B C B
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Em
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Em C
You are my darkness and you understand
D
I don’t want anything but your hand
C B
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
E E B C
E E B C
[Section V]
E A B A E A B A
I can’t stop thinking about you,
E A B A E A B A
And if you’re stripping me down too
E A B A E A B A
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
E A B A E A B A
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Em7 D
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
C B
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Em7
this obsession is not letting me survive
D
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
C
I am destroying all I have to let this burn
B E
this little flame is not so dangerous on it’s own.
[Riff]
E B C E F