Intro
Fm C# D#
[Verse 1]
Fm C# D# Fm C# D#
Putting pennies on the track, shiny and flat,
Fm C# D# Fm C# D#
It was the best we could be, sexy and free
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I grow away from myself with each passing bell
Fm C# D# Fm C# D#
With all these new accessories, I just stumble and bleed
[Chorus]
G# D#
For a moment I feel the coldness
Gm C#
At the end of a fall day
G# D#
I put my hands down deep in my pockets
C# C
As my body awakes
[Verse 2]
Fm C# D# Fm C# D#
So I'm heading back to school all brilliant and new,
Fm C# D# Fm C# D#
Trying hard to fit in and not to walk like a man
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D# girl that I never noticed asked me to hold this
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D# secret too hard to tell and I never will
[Chorus]
G# D#
For a moment I feel the coldness
Gm C#
Of everything that's been taken away
G# D#
I put the phone back in the cradle,
C# C
I can't make this okay
[Bridge]
Fm C# D#
The damage she'll survive
Fm C# D#
But damn the sacrifice of
Fm C# D#
Every life we've lost
C# C
Damn all the cost of the assault
[Verse 3]
Fm C# D#
You tied a knot and you dared me,
Fm C# D#
The stem of a cherry,
Fm C# D#
To find my own humanity
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And just let it breathe
[Chorus]
G# D#
Hold my head up in this moment
Gm C#
Keep myself from fading away
G# D#
Pull my hands out of pockets and
C# C
Feel my body awake
[Outro]
Fm C# A