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