Intro
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[Verse 1]
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White pine, the moon is so high
F# G# F# G# A#m
You see where you're going with your eyes closed
C#
Wild-eyed, growl and smoke
F# G# A#m Cm
Return every question in the same tone
C# F#
There's a state line, out in those pines, buried in frozen ground, we've chosen our sides,
Now we can't turn it around
[Chorus]
C# D#m Fm C#
G# F#
Chain Emily to the stake
C# D#m Fm C# G# D#m Fm C#
Her family's worried, she's terribly late
G# F#
B haze rolling across the lake
A#m Cm C# F#
If we go, who's to know, dead by morning if we stay
F# G# G# G# G# F# G# G# G#
[Verse 2]
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B burnt tongue, the paper unfolds
F# G# F# G# A#m
slipping it through another keyhole
C#
Slim hope of fireproof rope
F# G# A#m Cm
Kerosene off of your sweet nose
C# F#
It's a steak knife into my thigh, watching you flicker in real time, call your own kind
B C#
now we can't turn it around
[Chorus]
G# F#
Fates, give a warm soul a break
A#m Cm C# D#m Fm C#
Just give me a life where you're nothing but mine, and that's how it will stay
G# F#
But hey, I've never been so afraid
A#m Cm C# F#
With this cold in my bones, and a child engulfed in flame
F# G# G# G# G# F# x3
F# G# G# G# G#
[Outro]
C# D#m Fm G# G Fm G A#m x3
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