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