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