Verse
D#
Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
Cb C# D#
I got this diamond that don't know how to shine
D#
In the sun where these dark winds wail
Cb C# D#
and these children leave their rulers behind
Cb C# D#
As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon
Cb C# D#
with matchsticks for my bones
Cb C# F# G#
If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive
Cb 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
Cb C# D#
I want to hear what the blind men sing
D#
With their fossils and their gypsy bones
Cb C# D#
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone
Cb C# D#
How can I make new again
Cb C# D#
What rusts every time it rains?
Cb C# F# G#
And the rain, it comes and floods our lungs
Cb C# D#
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake
[Chorus 2]
Cm D#
If I wake up and see my maker coming
Cm D#
With all of his crimson and his iron desire
Cb D#
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing
A#m 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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G|-5---4---7---7---5---4---2-|
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[Outro]
D# Cadd9 A#m C#/G#
Ahhhh ooh ooh x4