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