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