Key: C# minor
Intro 1
Am
C
Am
C
Dm
Am
Verse 1
Am
I
C
Am
guess it couldn't last -
Verse 2
Am
C
We hear them in the day
you said you wanna leave
Verse 3
Am
C
Am
You want to see the world
and figure out what's left
Em
Am
I know what I saw I want to rest
C
Am
Dm
Am
We got breakfast cereals galore
I'm thinking,
C
Am
"Is that a metaphor?"
G
Dm
Verse 4
now feels trapped
Asus4
Am
and making love in this place
is just a tribute to the past
but I have no complaints -
I block out the screaming
with the sound system found in the back
Verse 5
it's a world insisting on itself
Asus4
Am
but you insist there's no health
Asus4
Am
to be found just eating off the shelf
Verse 6
and push me back a little
Asus4
Am
like you want to be apart
Fdim
Fm
Baby, I know that I'm start ing
Bb
Cm
to act just like them...
Eb
numb,
spent
Fm
Verse 7
I can't say the reassuring things
that you need me to say
so I just say, "It's killing
us to fight this way,"
and you reply,
"What killed us was a succession
of ordinary days"
And I resent the past tense
I wanted to defend the thing
but now we're hearing
shots from the roof
and here this clean army boy
drops through the vent,
calling you by name!
If this is rescue,
Verse 8
the varied healing tempos of
G
Dm
the giver and the take
and here I'd suffered at the
thought of her on her own
but all the while my love had been
servicing the telephone
Verse 9
Dm
than
F
Dm
the misaligned break -
your process
Am
Dm
with the one who leaves,
F
Am
you focus less on your direction
Verse 10
I see blood and gore
Fm
Bb
Cm
and love turned war
Bb
Bbsus4
You want to see for yourself?
Bb
Fm
Baby, what for? What for?
Verse 11
Fm
Bb
Cm
He hands me a flare gun
Bbsus4
Bb
G#
I promise to join them soon...
Verse 12
G#
a chopper taking off,
the pungent smell of rot
Am
F
Am
I look up in time to catch
one fall into the shop -
Verse 13
she didn't close the hatch!
C
Am
Gnashing in a pile then rising to its feet,
I fire into its teeth
Verse 14
In a few short breaths the
ceiling's raining mouths
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