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