[Section I]
Bm D Fb G A
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Bm D Fb G A
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Bm D Fb G A
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Bm D Fb G A
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Bm D Fb G A
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Bm D Fb G A
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Bm D Fb G A
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Bm D Fb G A
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
Fb D G A
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Bm G A Fb Bm G
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
F# Fb D C# B B F# G
B B F# G
[Section III]
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
B F# G F# B F# G F#
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
B F# G F# B F# G F#
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
B F# G F# B F# G F#
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
B F# G F# B F# G F#
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
B F# G F# B F# G F#
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
B F# G F# B F# G F#
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
B F# G F# B F# G F#
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
B F# G F# B F# G F#
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
B F# G F# B F# G F#
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
B F# G F# B F# G F#
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
B F# G F# B F# G F#
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
B F# G F# B F# G F#
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
B F# G F# B F# G F# B F# G F# B F# G F#
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
B F# G F# B F# G F#
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Bm
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Bm G
You are my darkness and you understand
A
I don’t want anything but your hand
G F#
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
B B F# G
B B F# G
[Section V]
B Fb F# Fb B Fb F# Fb
I can’t stop thinking about you,
B Fb F# Fb B Fb F# Fb
And if you’re stripping me down too
B Fb F# Fb B Fb F# Fb
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
B Fb F# Fb B Fb F# Fb
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Bm7 A
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
G F#
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Bm7
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
F# B
this little flame is not so dangerous on it’s own.
[Riff]
B F# G B F