Intro
C, G#, Em, G, C, Em, G x2
C#
Tell me a piece of your history
G# C#
that you're proud to call your own
C#
Speak in words you picked up
G# C#
as you walked through life alone.
C#
We used to swim in your stories
G# C#
and be pulled down by their tide,
C#
choking on the words
G# C#
and drowning with no air inside.
Fm C#
Now you've hit a wall and it's not your fault
G# D#
my dear, my dear, my dear.
Fm C#
Now you've hit a wall and you've hit it hard,
G# D#
my dear, my dear, oh dear.
C# G# D#
It is not enough to be dumbstruck;
(Can you fill the silence?)
C# G# Fm C
you must have the words in that head of yours.
C# G#
And oh, oh, can you feel the silence?
Fm D#
I can't take it anymore,
C# G# D#
'cause it is not enough to be dumbstruck.
(Can you fill the silence?)
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C#
Tell me a piece of your history
G# C#
that you've never said out loud.
C#
Pull the rug beneath my feet
G# C#
and shake me to the ground.
C#
Wrap me around your fingers,
G# C#
break the silence open wide,
C#
and before it seeps into my ears,
G# C#
it fills me up from the inside.
Fm C#
Now you've hit a wall and it's not your fault
G# D#
my dear, my dear, my dear.
Fm C#
Now you've hit a wall and you've hit it hard,
G# D#
my dear, my dear, oh dear.
C# G# D#
It is not enough to be dumbstruck;
(Can you fill the silence?)
C# G# Fm C
you must have the words in that head of yours.
C# G#
And oh, oh, can you feel the silence?
Fm D#
I can't take it anymore,
C# G# D#
'cause it is not enough to be dumbstruck.
(Can you fill the silence?)
C, G, D#
C#
If you give it a name, then it's already won.
G# D#
What you good for, what you good for?
C#
If you give it a name, then it's already won.
G# D#
What you good for, what you good for?
C# G#
If you give it a name, then it's already won.
D#
What you good for, what you good for?
C# G#
If you give it a name, then it's already won.
Fm D#
What you good for, what you good for?
C# G# D#
It is not enough to be dumbstruck;
(Can you fill the silence?)
C# G# Fm C
you must have the words in that head of yours.
C# G#
And oh, oh, can you feel the silence?
Fm D#
I can't take it anymore,
C# G# D#
'cause it is not enough to be dumbstruck, oh
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