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