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