Intro
C# F# (x2)
[Verse]
C#
The orderlies shuffle
F#
across black and white marble
C#
They're bustling reminders that
F#
no one can slow down the days
C#
The white coats and black boards
F#
they conspire behind locked doors
C#
They don't want to tell you how long
F#
until it eats me away
C#
I wish you would wake me
F#
when I'm violently shaking
C#
Tossing and turning through dreams
F#
where I die giving up
C#
I wish it had been you
F#
that I'd given my heart to
C#
Instead of just wasting these moments
F#
by biting my tongue
[Chorus]
A#m G#
And I've been having dreams
F# C#
of black and white infirmaries
A#m
With the palest walls
G# F#
that always stand in silence
A#m G#
If I thought that you could hear
F# C#
I'd whisper in your ear
A#m
All the things I couldn't
G# F#
come around to writing
[Interlude]
C# F# (x2)
[Verse]
C#
I've been constantly stepping
F#
with these unwanted weapons
C#
Like the things that I think
F#
and I feel will destroy everything
C#
So I'll hold a flame to
F#
the things I won't tell you
C#
And sift through the ashes
F#
for some kind of reason to sing
[Chorus]
A#m G#
And I've been having dreams
F# C#
of black and white infirmaries
A#m
With the palest walls
G# F#
that always stand in silence
A#m G#
If I thought that you could hear
F# C#
I'd whisper in your ear
A#m
All the things I couldn't
G# F#
come around to writing
[Interlude]
C# G# F# (x2)
[Outro]
C#
And I'll bleed right out
G# F#
of these wounds that I gave myself
C#
And I'll live out
G# F#
live out this life with nobody's help
C#
And I'll bleed right out
G# F#
of these wounds that I gave myself
C#
And I'll live out
G# F#
live out this life with nobody's help