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