Am Bm C D Em G
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C Em
C
I wake up fine and dandy but then by the time I find it handy,
To rip my heart apart and start planning my crash landing,
C Em
G
G Bm Am G G Bm Em Am D
I'll stay awake, 'cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight.
G
Why am I not scared in the morning,
I don't hear those voices calling, Em
I must have kicked them out,
Am
I must have kicked them out,
G
I swear I heard demons yelling,
Those crazy words they were spelling, Em
They told me I was gone,
Am
They told me I was gone.
But I'll tell them, G C G
Why won't you let me go?
Em G C
Do I threaten all your plans?
D
I'm insignificant.
G C G
Please tell them you have no plans for me.
D G C Bm D
I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?
G Em
I'll tell them!
C Em
C
On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake,
As the trees they await and clouds anticipate,
G Bm Am G G Bm Em Am D
I'll stay awake, 'cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight.
G
Why am I not scared in the morning,
I don't hear those voices calling, Em
I must have kicked them out,
Am
I must have kicked them out,
G
I swear I heard demons yelling,
Those crazy words they were spelling, Em
They told me I was gone,
Am
They told me I was gone.
But I'll tell them, G C G
Why won't you let me go?
Em G C
Do I threaten all your plans?
D
I'm insignificant.
G C G
Please tell them you have no plans for me.
D G C Bm D
I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?
G C G
I'll tell them you have no plans for me.
D G C Bm D
I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?
G
I'll tell them
I'll tell them Bm
I'll tell them
G C G
Please tell them you have no plans for me.
D G Bm D
I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?
G
I'm sorry
B E F# G#m
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G#m F# E B
G#m F#
I'm taking over my body, back in control, no more shotty,
E B
I bet a lot of me was lost, 't's uncrossed and 'I's undotted,
G#m F# E
I fought it a lot and it seems a lot like flesh is all I got,
B
Not anymore, flesh out the door, swat,
G#m F#
I must've forgot, you can't trust me,
E
I'm open a moment and close when you show it,
B
Before you know it I'm lost at sea,
G#m F#
And now that I write and think about it,
E
And the story unfolds,
B
You should take my life, you should take my soul.
G#m F# E B
E G#m B F#
You are surrounding all my surroundings,
E G#m B F#
Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain,
E G#m B F#
You are surrounding all my surroundings,
E G#m B F#
Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes.
G#m F# E B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
G#m F# E B
G#m F#
Remember the moment you know exactly where you're going,
E
'Cause the next moment, before you know it,
B G#m
Time is slowing and it's frozen still,
F#
And the window sill looks really nice, right?
E B
You think twice about your life, it probably happens at night,
G#m F#
Right? Fight it, take the pain, ignite it,
E B
Tie a noose around your mind loose enough to breathe fine and tie it,
G#m F#
To a tree, tell it, "You belong to me,
E
This ain't a noose, this is a leash,
B E
And I have news for you, you must obey me."
E G#m B F#
You are surrounding all my surroundings,
E G#m B F#
Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain,
E G#m B F#
You are surrounding all my surroundings,
E G#m B F#
Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes.
G#m F# B E
G#m F#
Entertain my faith
B E
Entertain my faith
G#m F#
Entertain my faith
B E
Entertain my faith
G#m F#
Entertain my faith
B E
Entertain my faith
G#m F#
Entertain my faith
B E
Entertain my faith
G#m F#
Entertain my faith
B E
Entertain my faith
G#m
Lean wit it, rock wit it,
F#
When we gonna stop with it,
E B
Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought,
G#m F#
Is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat,
E
It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,
B
it's our hearts that make the beat.
G#m
Lean wit it, rock wit it,
F#
When we gonna stop with it,
E B
Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought,
G#m F#
Is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat,
E
It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,
B
it's our hearts that make the beat.
G#m
Lean wit it, rock wit it,
F#
When we gonna stop with it,
E B
Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought,
G#m F#
Is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat,
E
It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,
B
it's our hearts that make the beat.
G#m
Lean wit it, rock wit it,
F#
When we gonna stop with it,
E B
Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought,
G#m F#
Is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat,
E
It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,
B
it's our hearts that make the beat.
G#m F# E B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
B G#m F# E
And I'll be holding on to you
Am C Dm F G
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F C G
Am I the only one I know
F C G Am
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
F C G F E
Shadows will scream that I'm alone-lone-lone
C F Am G
C F
I - I - I - I've got a migraine
Am G
And my pain will range from up, down and sideways
C F
Thank God it's Friday 'cause Fridays will always
Am G
Be better than Sundays 'cause Sundays are my suicide days
C F
I don't know why they always seem so dismal
Am G
Thunderstorms, clouds, snow and a slight drizzle
C F
Whether it's the weather or the letters by my bed
Am G
Sometimes death seems better than the migraine in my head
C F
Let it be said what the headache represents
Am G C
It's me defending in suspense, it's me suspended in a defenseless test
F
Being tested by a ruthless examinant
Am G
That's represented best by my
C F
Depresssssing thoughts
Am G
I do not have writer's block, my writer just hates the clock
C F
It will not let me sleep, I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead
Am G
And sometimes death seams better than the migraine in my head
F C G Am
Am I the only one I know
F C G Am
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
F C G
Shadows will scream that I'm alone
Dm C F C F Am
But I know we've made it this far, kid
G
Yeah yeah yeah!
C F Am G
C F
I am not as fine as I seem, pardon
Am G
Me for yelling, I'm telling you green gardens
C F
Are not what's growing in my psyche, it's a different me
Am G
A difficult beast feasting on burnt down trees
C F
Freeze frame please, let me paint a mental picture portrait
Am G
Something you won't forget, it's all about my forehead
C F
And how it is a door that holds back contents
Am G
That make Pandora's Box's contents look nonviolent
C F
Behind my eyelids are islands of violence
Am G
My mind's shipwrecked, this is the only land my mind could
C F
Find, I did not know this was such a violent island
Am G
Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions
C F
They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin
Am G
And I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win
C F
I begin to assemble what weapons I can find
Am G
'Cause sometimes to stay alive you got to kill your mind
F C G Am
Am I the only one I know
F C G Am
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
F C G
Shadows will scream that I'm alone
Dm C F C F Am
But I know we've made it this far, kid
G
Yeah yeah yeah!
C F Am G
C F
And I will say that we should take a day to break away
Am G
From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone
C F
And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it
Am G
And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone
C F
And I will say that we should take a day to break away
Am G
From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone
C F
And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it
Am G
And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone
F C G Am
Am I the only one I know
F C G Am
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
F C G
Shadows will scream that I'm alone
Dm C F C F Am
But I know we've made it this far, kid
G C F Am
Made it this far
G
Made it this...
Am A7 Bbm C Dm F G
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(muted)C
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Will you buy me a house of gold?
C F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Am G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
C F
And when your father turns to stone,
C G C
Will you take care of me?"
F A7
I will make you
Dm Bbm F
Queen of everything you see
C
I'll put you on the map
F C
I'll cure you of disease
C F
Let's say we up and left this town
Am G
And turned our future upside-down
C F
We'll make pretend that you and me
C G C
Lived ever after, happily
C F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Am G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
C F
And when your father turns to stone,
C G C
Will you take care of me?"
F A7
I will make you
Dm Bbm F
Queen of everything you see
C
I'll put you on the map
F C
I'll cure you of disease
C F
And since we know that dreams are dead
Am G
And life turns plans up on their head
C F
I will plan to be a bum
C G C
So I just might become someone
C F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Am G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
C F
And when your father turns to stone,
C G C
Will you take care of me?"
F A7
I will make you
Dm Bbm F
Queen of everything you see
C
I'll put you on the map
F
I'll cure you of disease
Am F G
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F F G Am G
F
I ponder of something great
F G
My lungs will fill and then deflate
Am
They fill with fire
Exhale desire G
I know it's dire
My time todayF
I have these thoughts
F
So often I ought
G
To replace that slot
Am
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole G
My car radio
F
And now I just sit in silence
F G
Sometimes quiet is violent
A m
I find it hard to hide it G
My pride is no longer inside
F
It's on my sleeve
My skin will scream F
Reminding me of
G Am
Who I killed inside my dream
G
I hate this car that I'm driving
F
There's no hiding for me
F
I'm forced to deal with what I feel
G Am
There is no distraction to mask what is real
G
I could pull the steering wheel
F
I have these thoughts
F
So often I ought
G
To replace that slot
Am
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole G
My car radio
F
And now I just sit in silence
F F G Am G
F
I ponder of something terrifying
F G
'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind
Am
I find over the course of our human existence
G
One thing consists of consistence
F
And it's that we're all battling fear
F G
Oh dear, I don't know if we know why we're here
Am
Oh my,
Please stop thinkingG
I liked it better when my car had sound
F
There are things we can do
F G
But from the things that work there are only two
Am
And from the two that we choose to do
G
Peace will win
And fear will lose F
There's faith and there's sleep
F G
We need to pick one please because
Am
Faith is to be awake
G
And to be awake is for us to think
F
And for us to think is to be alive
F
And I will try with every rhyme
G Am
To come across like I am dying
G F
To let you know you need to try to think
F
I have these thoughts
F
So often I ought
G
To replace that slot
Am
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole G
My car radio
F
And now I just sit in silence
F F G Am G
F
I ponder of something great
F G
My lungs will fill and then deflate
Am
They fill with fire
Exhale desire G
I know it's dire
My time todayF
I have these thoughts
F
So often I ought
G
To replace that slot
Am
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole G
My car radio
F
And now I just sit in silence
A Bm C#m D E F#m
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F#m A
F#m A
F#m A
Night falls with gravity
F#m A
The earth turns from sanity
D A
Taking my only friend I know
C#m
He leaves a lot
E D
His name is hope
A
I'm never what I like
D
I'm double sided
F#m
And I just can't hide
E
I kinda like it
A
When I make you cry
D F#m
Cos I'm twisted up
E
I'm twisted up inside
F#m
The horrors of the night melt away
A
Under the warm glow of survival of the day
F#m
Then we move on, my shadow grows taller along with my fears
A
And my friends shrink smaller as night grows near
F#m A
When the sun is climbing window sills
F#m A
And the silver lining rides the hills
D A
I will be saved for one whole day
C#m E D
Until the sun makes the hills its grave
A
I'm never what I like
D
I'm double sided
F#m
And I just can't hide
E
I kinda like it
A
When I make you cry
D F#m
Cos I'm twisted up
E
I'm twisted up inside
A
I'm never what I like
D
I'm double sided
F#m
And I just can't hide
E
I kinda like it
A
When I make you cry
D F#m
Cos I'm twisted up
E
I'm twisted up inside my mind
A D F#m E
A D F#m E
A F#m
I'm semi-automatic
E
My prayers schizophrenic
D
But I'll live on, yeah I'll live on, yeah I'll live on
A F#m
I'm semi-automatic
E
My prayers schizophrenic
D
But I'll live on, yeah I'll live on, yeah I'll live on
A F#m
I'm semi-automatic
E
My prayers schizophrenic
D
But I'll live on, yeah I'll live on, yeah I'll live on
A F#m
I'm semi-automatic
E
My prayers schizophrenic
D
But I'll live on, yeah I'll live on, yeah I'll live on
E F#m Bm
By the time the night wears off,
D E
The dust is down and shadows burn
E F#m Bm
I will rise and stand my ground,
D E
Waiting for the night's return.
A C#m
I'm never what I like
D
I'm double sided
F#m
And I just can't hide
E
I kinda like it
A
When I make you cry
D F#m
Cos I'm twisted up
E
I'm twisted up inside
A
I'm never what I like
D
I'm double sided
F#m
And I just can't hide
E
I kinda like it
A
When I make you cry
D F#m
Cos I'm twisted up
E
I'm twisted up inside my mind
A D F#m E
A D F#m E
Am C F G
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C G Am Am
G F G G
C
I do not know
Why I would go G
In front of you
Am
And hide my soul
G F
Cause you're the only one who knows it
G
Yea you're the only one who knows it
C
And I will hide behind my pride
G Am
To don't know what I think I could lie
G F
Cause there's a screen on my chest
G
Yea there's a screen on my chest
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C
I can't see past my own nose
I'm seeing everything in slow-mo G
Look out below crashing down to the ground
Am
Just like a vertical loco-motive that's a train
G
In my painting a picture that's in my brain
F G
A train from the sky locomotive my motives are insane
C
My flow's not great
Okay G
I conversate with people who know if I flow
Am
When my song got no radio play
G
While you're doing fine
There's some people and IF
Who have a really tough time
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C G Am F
C G
We're broken we're broken we're broken
Am
We're broken people
F
We're broken people
C G
We're broken we're broken we're broken
Am
We're broken people
F
We're broken people
C G
We're broken we're broken we're broken
Am
We're broken people
F
We're broken people
C G
We're broken we're broken we're broken
Am
We're broken people
F
We're broken people
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
C
I'm standing in front of you
G Am
I'm standing in front of you
G F
I'm trying to be so cool
G
Everything together trying to be so cool
A#m B C C# D D# D#m Em Fm F# G G#
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F#
I can't take them on my own, my own
Oh, I'm not the one you know, you know
B
Don't wanna call you in the nighttime
F#
Don't wanna give you all my pieces
B
Don't wanna hand you all my trouble
F#
Don't wanna give you all my demons
B
You'll have to watch me struggle
D#m
From several rooms away
F# C# F#
But tonight I'll need you to stay.
B F# B F#
B D#m F# C# F#
F#
I am up against the wall, the wall
For I hear them coming down the hall
B
Don't wanna call you in the nighttime
F#
Don't wanna give you all my pieces
B
Don't wanna hand you all my trouble
F#
Don't wanna give you all my demons
B
Y ou'll have to watch me struggle
D#m
From several rooms away
F# C# F#
But tonight I'll need you to stay.
B F# B F#
B D#m F# C# F#
G# D# Fm A#m G# D# C C# D#
Cold nights under, siege from accusa-tions
G# D# Fm A#m G# D# C C# D#
Cere-bral thunder in one-way conversa-tions
Fm D# A#m C C# G# C
G
*whistle*
C
Don't wanna call you in the nighttime
G
Don't wanna give you all my pieces
C
Don't wanna hand you all my trouble
G
Don't wanna give you all my demons
C
You'll have to watch me struggle
Em
From several rooms away
G D G
But tonight I need you to stay.
Em C G D
Tonight I need you to stay!
Em C G D
Tonight I need you to stay!
Em C G D
Tonight I need you to stay!
Em C G D G
Tonight I need you to stay!
B C# D#m F#
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F# D#m B C#
F# C# D#m B
I want to drive away
F# C# D#m B
In the night, headlights call my name
B D#m
I, I'll never be, be what you see inside
F# B
You say I'm not alone, but I am petrified
B D#m
You say that you are close, is close the closest star?
F# B F#
You just feel twice as far, you just feel twice as far
F# D#m
And I'll fall
B
And I'll break
C#
And I'll fake
F#
All I wanna
D#m
And I'll fall down
B
And I'll break down
C#
And I'll fake you out
F#
All I wanna
F# D#m F# B
B
I'm so afraid
D#m
Of what you have to say
F#
Cause I am quiet now
B
And silence gives you space
B D#m
I, I'll never be, be what you see inside
F# B
You say I'm not alone, but I am petrified
B D#m
You say that you are close, is close the closest star?
F# B F#
You just feel twice as far, you just feel twice as far
F# D#m
And I'll fall
B
And I'll break
C#
And I'll fake
F#
All I wanna
D#m
And I'll fall down
B
And I'll break down
C#
And I'll fake you out
F#
All I wanna
B D#m
It's the same game today as it always is
F
I don't give these places fake my name explaining this
B
And the wrists of my mind have the bleeding lines
N.C
That remind me of all the times... B
I have committed
D#m
Dirty dirty crimes that are perfectly form-fitted
F#
To what I've done and what I'm doing
And believe me that's what all the kids are doing B
What kids are doing are killing themselves
D#m
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's cell
F# B
And if you're one of them then you're one of me
N.C.
And you would do almost anything just to feel free... B
Am I right? Of course I am
D#m
Convince me otherwise would take all night
F#
Before you walk away, there's one more thing I want to say
B
Our brains are sick but that's okay
F# D#m B C#
F# D#m
And I'll fall
B
And I'll break
C#
And I'll fake
F#
All I wanna
F# D#m B C#
F#
All I wanna
D#m
Yeah, and I'll fall down
B
And I'll break down
C#
And I'll fake you out
F#
All I wanna
D#m
Yeah, and I'll fall down
B
And I'll break down
C#
And I'll fake you out
F#
All I wanna
B
I'm so afraid
D#m
Of what you have to say
F#
Cause I am quiet now
B F#
And silence gives you space
A B C# D#m E F# G
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F# F# C# C#
D#m B F# C#
F# C#
I know what you think in the morning, when the sun shines on the ground,
D#m B F# C#
And shows what you have done, it shows where your mind has gone.
F# C#
And you swear to your parents, that it will never happen again,
D#m B F# C#
I know, I know, what that means, I know.
B F# C#
That you all have guns, and you never put the safety on.
G#m F# C#
And you all have plans, to take it, to take it, don't take it, take it, take it.
F# C# D#m
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep.
B F# C#
But I can't, but I can't, when you all have guns for hands.
F# C# D#m
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep.
B F# C#
But I can't, but I can't, when you all have guns for hands.
F# C#
Let's take this a second at a time. Let's take this one song, this one rhyme.
D#m B F# C#
Together, let's breathe. Together, to the beat.
F# C#
But there's hope out the window, so that's where we'll go.
D#m B F# C#
Let's go outside and all join hands but until then you'll never understand.
B F# C#
That you all have guns, and you never put the safety on.
G#m F# C#
And you all have plans, to take it, to take it, don't take it, take it, take it.
F# C# D#m
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep.
B F# C#
But I can't, but I can't, when you all have guns for hands.
D#m B F# C#
D#m
We've turned our hands to guns, trade in our thumbs for ammunition
B
I must forewarn you of my disorder, my condition.
F# C#
'Cause when the sun sets, it upsets what's left of my invested interest,
Interested in putting my fingers to my head. D#m
The solution is I see a whole room of these mutant kids,
B
Fused at the wrist I simply tell them they should shoot at this.
F#
Simply suggest my chest and this confused music i
C#
Obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist.
F# F# C# C#
D#m B F# C#
F# C# D#m
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep.
B F# C#
But I can't, but I can't, when you all have guns for hands.
F# C# D#m
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep.
B F# C#
But I can't, but I can't, when you all have guns for hands
B C# D#m F#
e|-2---4---6---2-|
B|-4---6---7---2-|
D#m B F# D#m
D#m B F# D#m
I know where you stand, silent in the trees
B F# D#m
and that's where I am, silent in the trees
B F# D#m
Why won't you speak where I happen to be?
B F#
Silent in the trees, standing cowardly
F# B D#m F# C# D#m
I can feel your breath, I can feel my death
B F# C# D#m B F#
I want to know you, I want to see, I want to say, "Hello, hello"
B C Cm D Em F# G
e|-2---0---3---2---0---2---3-|
B|-4---1---4---3---0---2---3-|
G
G B C G Em C G
Now the night is coming to an end (Ooo-ooo-ooh)
G B C G Em C G
The sun will rise, and we will try again (Ooo-ooo-ooh)
D C G
Stay alive, stay alive, for me
D C G
You will die, but now your life is free
F# Em D C Cm G
Take pride in what is sure - to - die
G B C G Em C G
I will fear the night again (Ooo-ooo-ooh)
G B C G Em C G
I hope I'm not my only friend (Ooo-ooo-ooh)
D C G
Stay alive, stay alive, for me
D C G
You will die, but now your life is free
F# Em D C Cm G
Take pride in what is sure - to - die
Em - C - G
