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