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