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