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