[Section I]
Am C D F G
Separate faces help him to walk and cross the tiles
Am C D F G
As he justifies existence with flinches and false smiles
Am C D F G
And the hand he used to feed his hunger shriveled from the cold
Am C D F G
And he borrowed more than he can pay his debts are getting old
Am C D F G
And the cracks had always been on show, the spirit always broke
Am C D F G
The bottles always emptied well before the candle smoked
Am C D F G
Tobacco always there on cue and someone elses glass
Am C D F G
And someone elses secrets become someone elses past
[Section II]
D C F G
I know you well I know you felt, like it should have been someone else who fell
Am F G D Am F
But I’ll never forget your face, you melt into my life…
[Riff]
E D C B A A E F
A A E F
[Section III]
A E F E A E F E
I want the attention that she’s getting from your loving arms, you let me
A E F E A E F E
soak my face into your memory like you want me and you kept me
A E F E A E F E
wanting more, as I don’t know you, I don’t own you, I just sew you
A E F E A E F E
into pieces of this fabric that I wear over my shoulders
A E F E A E F E
like a dream you fill me up and make me whole just like a soldier
A E F E A E F E
trains her mind to do the killing even though he isn’t willing
A E F E A E F E
I have pain and I am cold without your heat to make me bold
A E F E A E F E
I just forget that we’re not molded, we’re just solitary soldiers
A E F E A E F E
giving up on all this love stuff, it’s made up and we’re just older
A E F E A E F E
I give up on you we’re over, I want reciprocal lovers
A E F E A E F E
I want trust and I want safety, I need space and I need chasing
A E F E A E F E
I want to feel like I’m the only girl around you who can know you
A E F E A E F E
but I want to see you luring other women who can’t own you
A E F E A E F E
‘cause I want to see their faces when you make them lose their graces
A E F E A E F E
when you make them feel they’re placeless, like a chain around an object
A E F E A E F E
that keeps moving you’re a concept of a man and of an object
A E F E A E F E
you are everything I wanted, all I seem to crave,
A E F E A E F E A E F E A E F E
like a hero needs to save, except for when I get up close, there is a maggot on the rose
A E F E A E F E
like a magpie stealing shiny things, they’re sometimes diamonds,
Am
sometimes tin
[Section IV]
Am F
You are my darkness and you understand
G
I don’t want anything but your hand
F E
Just hold me steady hold the frame, and I’ll shoot again
[Riff]
A A E F
A A E F
[Section V]
A D E D A D E D
I can’t stop thinking about you,
A D E D A D E D
And if you’re stripping me down too
A D E D A D E D
My brittlebones and crumbled joints
A D E D A D E D
These open wounds just need some salt.
[Section VI]
Am7 G
it would be better if you left, if I can’t see you I can’t step
F E
into the light you cast about you, I can’t have you but I want to
Am7
this obsession is not letting me survive
G
I feel I’m damaging myself to stay alive
F
I am destroying all I have to let this burn
E A
this little flame is not so dangerous on it’s own.
[Riff]
A E F A F