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]
Am G
And I've been having dreams
F C
of black and white infirmaries
Am
With the palest walls
G F
that always stand in silence
Am G
If I thought that you could hear
F C
I'd whisper in your ear
Am
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]
Am G
And I've been having dreams
F C
of black and white infirmaries
Am
With the palest walls
G F
that always stand in silence
Am G
If I thought that you could hear
F C
I'd whisper in your ear
Am
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