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