Key: E major
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
I'll
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bury my downcast hours in transparent ink
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Tie myself to the mast and wait here for
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Though I know I've set sail on a wishing well
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Verse 2
with every breath I take
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Gasps of air become roaring
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think things through
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I know words always come
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before you do
Verse 3
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left in these lines
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I've been trying too hard, too long,
Interlude 1
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Is this what a
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would call happiness?
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Is it part of some unmade promise
I thought I could forget?
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Is it time that I let some
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air come through?
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For now strangling love
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is all I can do
Verse 5
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of poems in mind
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will heal given time
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But these days are no
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Em
And I know that by waiting,
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I'll make them stand still
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
through those winter nights
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But the ropes only tighten round
There's no worth throwing
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stone in a wishing well
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Now I'm out of black ink
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and true tales to tell
Verse 7
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know they're just lies
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I find in between those lines
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reason to read it again
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Just to feel there's a reason to read it again
Outro 1
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