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