Verse
C# C# Cb F#
This town ain't big enough for both of us
C# Cb F#
So don't sleep on the things that my hands have done
C# Cb F#
The flora and the fire keep lighting up the distance
C# Cb F#
Careful with your mouth don't let it run
F# G# A#m
Out of sight, out of mind
Aaug F#
Dug my heels into the earth
G# A#m Aaug
It was safe, it was mine, but this is where the way turns
[Chorus 1]
C# Cb F#
Take it while you get it, toss this and forget it
C# Cb F#
As you swallow your seat and son
C# Cb
You're plagued with pride of fathers
F#
Long since dead behind you
C# Cb F#
Careful with your feet don't let them run
[Verse 2]
F# G# A#m
You can camouflage, you can lock up, and you can stow away
Aaug
But it is to question one's self in a hideout to leave the cover
F#
The cursed will stay away
G# A#m
And in my hard heart I tried to block out and to blot out and obstruct the clouds
Aaug
But the shroud, the bell, the blanket and the envelope will eclipse them now
[Pre-Chorus 1]
F# G#
Standing where the water meets the shore you feel the sun
A#m Aaug
Touch your face and leave its mark with nowhere left to run
F# G#
To hide your shaking hands and words that swore this was the day
A#m Aaug
You never feel as weak as when the answers go away
[Chorus 2]
F# G#
I was caught in the current; it's a lesson, and I've learned it
A#m Aaug
The teacher left scars on our fists
(I'm the worst, I'm the worst, just please leave me here)
F# G#
There's pain we never speak of, second guess the ones that we love
A#m Aaug
And the last thing you want is for your last words to sound so scared
A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
But you find yourself here, alone and scared
A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
Will they leave You here, Will You leave me here?
[Bridge]
C#
The best part of that
G#
Is I want it back
F#
The best things to say, I want to say
C# G# F#
That all this time I was wrong
C#
The water's deep
G#
As they find their sleep
F#
And I begged for less
But I second guessed
C# G#
That you would come
F#
After me
[Outro]
(The past still waits)
C#/F D#m G# A#m Fm C# D#m
It's the pain we ne-ver speak of
(To catch my eye)
C#/F D#m G# A#m Fm C# D#m
Se - cond guess the ones that we love
(And I never stopped)
C#/F D#m G# A#m Fm C# D#m
All the words and our con-fessions
(To question)
C#/F D#m G# A#m Fm C# D#m
I ne- ver thought that I should question
A#m Fm
To question why
A#m Fm (x3)
C#/F D#m G# A#m Fm C# Dm