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