Intro
A# D# (x2)
[Verse]
A#
The orderlies shuffle
D#
across black and white marble
A#
They're bustling reminders that
D#
no one can slow down the days
A#
The white coats and black boards
D#
they conspire behind locked doors
A#
They don't want to tell you how long
D#
until it eats me away
A#
I wish you would wake me
D#
when I'm violently shaking
A#
Tossing and turning through dreams
D#
where I die giving up
A#
I wish it had been you
D#
that I'd given my heart to
A#
Instead of just wasting these moments
D#
by biting my tongue
[Chorus]
Gm F
And I've been having dreams
D# A#
of black and white infirmaries
Gm
With the palest walls
F D#
that always stand in silence
Gm F
If I thought that you could hear
D# A#
I'd whisper in your ear
Gm
All the things I couldn't
F D#
come around to writing
[Interlude]
A# D# (x2)
[Verse]
A#
I've been constantly stepping
D#
with these unwanted weapons
A#
Like the things that I think
D#
and I feel will destroy everything
A#
So I'll hold a flame to
D#
the things I won't tell you
A#
And sift through the ashes
D#
for some kind of reason to sing
[Chorus]
Gm F
And I've been having dreams
D# A#
of black and white infirmaries
Gm
With the palest walls
F D#
that always stand in silence
Gm F
If I thought that you could hear
D# A#
I'd whisper in your ear
Gm
All the things I couldn't
F D#
come around to writing
[Interlude]
A# F D# (x2)
[Outro]
A#
And I'll bleed right out
F D#
of these wounds that I gave myself
A#
And I'll live out
F D#
live out this life with nobody's help
A#
And I'll bleed right out
F D#
of these wounds that I gave myself
A#
And I'll live out
F D#
live out this life with nobody's help