Intro
G# C G# C
[Verse]
C G#
You're running out, your heavy heart, I hope it slows you down
G# C C# C
I'll be your gravity and pull you to the ground
C G#
You're running out of solid ground, I'll be that tectonic plate
G# D# C#
That shifts and brings your head back to this place
[Pre-Chorus]
C C#
Everybody does their time on the fault line
C D#
For now let's keep our feet on the same side
[Chorus]
G# C
Be the nine and I'll be the three
C# G#
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
Fm D# C#
There's some things that time can't change, oh
[Instrumental]
G# C G#
[Verse]
G#
That same tectonic plate
G# D# C#
That shifts and brings your head back to this place
[Pre-Chorus]
C C#
Everybody does their time on the fault line
C G# Fm
For now let's keep our feet on the same side
C G# D#
Everybody does their time
[Chorus]
G# C
Be the nine and I'll be the three
C# G#
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
Fm D# C#
There's some things that time can't change
[Chorus 2]
G# C
So leave a piece of yourself
C# G#
And take something back too, back too
C D# C#
There's some things that just can't change
[Bridge 1]
Fm C D#
Father Time is a blurred bird in disguise
G# C# G#
Who made his way to my shoulder
G# C# G#
It's weighing me down, it makes me grow older
Fm C
I wish it would all just stop
D# C#
I put my all into destroying his nest
G# C# C
It's weighing me down, it makes us grow older
[Instrumental]
G# D# G# C
[Chorus]
Fm D# C#
There's some things that time can't change
G# C
Be the nine and I'll be the three
C# G#
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
Fm D# C#
There's some things that time can't change
G# C
So leave a piece of yourself
C# G#
And take something back too, back too
[Bridge 2]
Fm D#
I'll be your gravity
Fm D#
The same tectonic plate; that's me
Fm D# C#
Everybody does their time on the fault line
[Outro]
G# C C# D# Fm D# C# x3