Verse
C#m
G# flicker of a light in an empty home
B
Bickering at night and you end up cold
D#m
I wanna let the right brain retain control
G#m
The rhyme inspires most when it's 5 minutes old
C#m
There's a feeling that I get when it's sad and it's grey
B
Reminds me of times way back in the day
D#m
They wouldn't call me back, they didn't wanna play
I ask my stepmother if it ever goes away
C#m
So I'm sending you a message with text
B
That doesn't really say it's an SOS
D#m
Yes so I guess that I press those numbers
G#m
To summon for a presto, grow less number
C#m
Looking forwards I spring into summer
B
And wonder if you would lay around like lumber
D#m
And supports me like a funder
Paying attention to my pain and tension
C#m
We all have forces pulling us under
B
But somewhere beneath this world torn asunder
D#m
We smell the storm before the thunder
G#m
And bring angles down to earth like sunder
Dm, B
D#m G#m
And when it bursts, the loneliness hurts like hunger
[Chorus]
C#m B
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
D#m G#m
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
C#m B
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
D#m G#m
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
[Verse 2]
C#m
Where did my joy go?
B
I'm chewin' at its vapors
D#m
Hiding from the light
G#m
With this basement as my base
C#m
The opposite of a smiling face
B
I pile on disgraces
D#m
Say amazing grace
G#m
To chase down whatever this taste is
C#m
I'm a tweeter with a blown cone
B
Wonder where the bass is
D#m
Drawn to you on a path of penciled promises
G#m
Found my feet inside erasers
C#m B
Praises to Rafael and St. Rita
D#m
Try to breathe and gasp
G#m
Try to seize and grasp, and breathe my last
C#m B
Don't even ask if you can counsel me
D#m
I'm a lone wolf so I wear wolf wear wool
G#m
Like lycanthropy
C#m
Cut connections with irreverence
B
I slither in and sever us
D#m
I wanna be the boy who lived
G#m
But never have no trust to give
C#m
I must admit through busted lips
B
I've sunken ships and rusted bridges
D#m
Cut slow to the quick
G#m
And lost myself to split decisions
C#m
Multiply by my divisions
B
Round down for the placement
C#m
Who's he? Just me
G#m
Alone in that basement
[Chorus]
C#m B
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
D#m G#m
Why don't you tell 'em about the loneliness?
x4 or so