[Section I]
Cm D# F G# A#
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Cm D# F G# A#
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Cm D# F G# A#
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Cm D# F G# A#
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Cm D# F G# A#
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Cm D# F G# A#
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Cm D# F G# A#
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Cm D# F G# A#
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
F Eb G# A#
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Cm G# A# F Cm G#
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
G F Eb D C C G G#
C C G G#
[Section III]
C G G# G C G G# G
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
C G G# G C G G# G
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
C G G# G C G G# G
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
C G G# G C G G# G
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
C G G# G C G G# G
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
C G G# G C G G# G
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
C G G# G C G G# G
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
C G G# G C G G# G
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
C G G# G C G G# G
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
C G G# G C G G# G
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
C G G# G C G G# G
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
C G G# G C G G# G
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
C G G# G C G G# G
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
C G G# G C G G# G
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
C G G# G C G G# G
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
C G G# G C G G# G
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
C G G# G C G G# G
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
C G G# G C G G# G C G G# G C G G# G
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
C G G# G C G G# G
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Cm
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Cm G#
You are my darkness and you understand
A#
I don’t want anything but your hand
G# G
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
C C G G#
C C G G#
[Section V]
C F G F C F G F
I can’t stop thinking about you,
C F G F C F G F
And if you’re stripping me down too
C F G F C F G F
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
C F G F C F G F
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Cm7 A#
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
G# G
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Cm7
this obsession is not letting me survive
A#
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
G#
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 G# C F