[Section I]
Dm F G A# C
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Dm F G A# C
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Dm F G A# C
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Dm F G A# C
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Dm F G A# C
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Dm F G A# C
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Dm F G A# C
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Dm F G A# C
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
G F A# C
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Dm A# C G Dm A#
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
A G F E D D A A#
D D A A#
[Section III]
D A A# A D A A# A
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
D A A# A D A A# A
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
D A A# A D A A# A
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
D A A# A D A A# A
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
D A A# A D A A# A
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
D A A# A D A A# A
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
D A A# A D A A# A
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
D A A# A D A A# A
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
D A A# A D A A# A
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
D A A# A D A A# A
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
D A A# A D A A# A
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
D A A# A D A A# A
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
D A A# A D A A# A
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
D A A# A D A A# A
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
D A A# A D A A# A
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
D A A# A D A A# A
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
D A A# A D A A# A
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
D A A# A D A A# A D A A# A D A A# A
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
D A A# A D A A# A
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Dm
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Dm A#
You are my darkness and you understand
C
I don’t want anything but your hand
A# A
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
D D A A#
D D A A#
[Section V]
D G A G D G A G
I can’t stop thinking about you,
D G A G D G A G
And if you’re stripping me down too
D G A G D G A G
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
D G A G D G A G
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Dm7 C
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
A# A
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Dm7
this obsession is not letting me survive
C
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
A#
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 A# D F