Intro: Am G Am E Am
Am
The flowers by your bed are wilting.
E
The sun is setting in the west.
E
A fog is covering your eyes,
E
Your stockings are attracting flies,
Am E
Decay is nibbling at the boards on which you rest.
Am
There's someone waiting at your window,
Dm
Familiar face without a name.
E
One night he'll creep in like the mist,
E
To touch your forehead with a kiss,
Am E
And lead you back into the void from whence you came.
F E Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
F E Am
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
F E Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm Am E Am
And we dance while the sky crashes down.
C Am E
Like that the earth begins to quiver,
Am E
And all the oceans turn to black.
E
A ship of maniacs with knives,
E
Are playing Blackjack with their lives,
Am
To kill the time until the giant rats attack.
Am
It's raining leprosy and acid.
Dm
The saints were taken out and shot.
E
When someone proffers you a pear,
E
You sink your teeth in unaware,
Am E
That just beneath the skin lies pestilence and rot.
F E Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
F E Am E
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
C F E Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm Am E Am
And we dance while the sky crashes down.
Bridge
F Am Dm
Am F E Am C G
Dm E G E Am
Dm Am E Am
All that now breathes, and all that you love,
Dm Am F E
All that we weave, will find its way back to the dust.
Am
A band of skeletons is playing,
E
Don't act like you don't know the tune.
E
Your part is echoed in the path,
E
Of every dead leaf blowing past,
Am E
Against a counterpoint reflected off the moon.
C Am
There is a banquet at the table,
E Dm
Exotic cheeses wines and cakes.
E
And every one of us is damned,
C E
Until we start to understand,
Am E
That living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes.
F E Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
F E Am E
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
C F E Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm Am E Am
And we dance while the sky crashes down.
C F E Am
When the stakes are high, best to play the clown.
Dm Am C F G
And we dance while the sky crashes down.