Intro: A
verse 1:
E B/Eb A
don't break too many hearts
E B/Eb A
don't take too many arrows
C#m
in the chest. cry comfortably
E B
let us all know what you're
C#m E B/Eb
thinking is there a gesture
A
i could use to clearly
E B/Eb
express i'm at an utter
A C#m
loss for words? is there
B A
a part of you that's torn?
E
that's larger than life?
B
that will hold on for
C#m
one more night?
Refrain 1:
A
i've got a speech
B A
to make followed
B A
by a big parade
E A
northside closed
C#m B
eyes all charades
A
go on forever
E A
hands tied with
fool's pride
C#m B
in a slowly
A
fleeing summer
verse 2:
E
just throw your
B/Eb
hands up at the
A E B/Eb
sky no use trying
A C#m
to explain the
the clouds are
B
mirrors i'm
A
disguised
E B/Eb
i'm not all
C#m
that entertaining
E B/Eb
the city looks
A E
the same until you
B/Eb
notice smaller
A C#m
changes it still
B A
knows us all by name
E
it holds us
B
close to its heart
C#m
it holds us
B
close to its heart
Refrain 2:
A
all my hopes
B
are unaligned
A
this diagnosis
B A
is self-designed
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
E B
empty rooms don't have
C#m A
pictures to talk to
E B
brickwall views demand
C#m A
uninspired afternoons
E B
the days are flooding
A E
into months the nights
B C#m
are staring into centuries
verse 3:
A B
i've got some
E
older pictures
A B
of people i
E
see once every
C#m
couple years
A
intrigued
B
or unamazed
E
"you were so much
C#m
different back
A A
in those days"
verse 4:
E B
and now this smile has
C#m E
a bitter curve and now
B A
these eyes are unenchanted
E B C#m
and all we see is a faded
A
image of what we used to
E B A
be how can we relate
Verse 5:
E B
when we don't know
C#m
a thing about each
A E
other anymore?
B
when we don't know
C#m
a thing about each
A E
other anymore?
B
when we don't know
C#m
a thing about each
A E
other anymore?
B
when we don't know
C#m A E B/Eb C#m A
each other anymore?
E B/Eb C#m A
Outro:
E B/Eb
is there a gesture
C#m
I could use to
B A
clearly express
B
at an utter
E
loss for words