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