Verse
D
Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
A# C D
I got this diamond that don't know how to shine
D
In the sun where these dark winds wail
A# C D
and these children leave their rulers behind
A# C D
As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon
A# C D
with matchsticks for my bones
A# C F G
If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive
A# C D
We could learn to leave these burdens to burn
[Chorus 1]
F C
Cast out these creatures of woe
G D
Who shatter themselves
F C G D
Fighting a fire with your bare hands
[Verse]
D
Now my journey takes me further south
A# C D
I want to hear what the blind men sing
D
With their fossils and their gypsy bones
A# C D
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone
A# C D
How can I make new again
A# C D
What rusts every time it rains?
A# C F G
And the rain, it comes and floods our lungs
A# C D
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake
[Chorus 2]
Bm D
If I wake up and see my maker coming
Bm D
With all of his crimson and his iron desire
A# D
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing
Am G F
To be loved or destroyed, from a void
C G D
to a grain of sand in your hand
[Interlude]
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B|-6---5---8---7---6---5---3-|
G|-5---4---7---7---5---4---2-|
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[Outro]
D Cadd9 Am C/G
Ahhhh ooh ooh x4