Verse
C#5 B5 B(aug) C#5
How could we be so blind to the effects each time?
C#5 B5
Why keep watching when you know the end?
B(aug) C#5
Why make this journey again and again?
C#5 B5
We know it's just pain and lies
B(aug) C#5
Let's watch, feign surprise
C#5 B5
Afraid to admit that it's all a facade
B(aug) C#5 B5 E5 F#5 C#5
You wind up alone in spite of what they laud
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
[Verse 2]
C#5 B5
Well I been marchin', so long
B(aug) C#5
I towed that line, so strong
C#5 B5
I kept holdin' until it tore me apart
B(aug) C#5
Until it opened up my chest and ripped out my heart
C#5 B5
So mother, may I please submit
B(aug) C#5
The notion I no longer believe in this shit?
C#5 B5
Lay me on the consummation bed
B(aug) C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
G# fatal blow driven to the maidenhead
[Chorus]
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
We're runnin on nothin'
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
But the fumes of our dreams
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
At another point in my life
A#m G#5
That was good enough for me
[Verse 3]
C#5 B5
Short plume, fades fast
B(aug) C#5
The petals fall and crash
C#5 B5
Well, I believe one could put it best
B(aug) C#5
We spend most of life dealin' with the mess
C#5 B5
The saddest joy is that I concede
B(aug) C#5
But the bitter resolution is why I secede
C#5 B5
Sick of fallin' from the lowest low
B(aug) C#5
The higher the height, the further you go
[Verse 4]
C#5 B5
Pull myself back to bended knee
B(aug) C#5
Just an emotion, it hurts physically
C#5 B5
Swans mate for life or so I've heard
B(aug) C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
Which is fitting, because that shit's for the birds
[Chorus]
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
We're runnin on nothin'
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
But the fumes of our dreams
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
At another point in my life
A#m G#5 C#5 B5 E5 F#5
That was good enough for me
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
C#5 B5 E5 F#5
[Verse 5]
C#5 B5
They leave, it hurts
B(aug) C#5
See it comin', it's worse
C#5 B5
Stiff upper lip try to carry on
B(aug) C#5
Let's pretend this shit is makin' us strong
C#5 B5
And we only can take so much
B(aug) C#5
Before all our sense of decency is finally crushed
C#5 B5
And all that's left is a dried out husk
B(aug) C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
With the belief that love isn't gonna save us
[Chorus]
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
We're runnin on nothin'
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
But the fumes of our dreams
F#5 C#5 C#5 B5 A#5
At another point in my life
A#m G#5
That was good enough for me
[Outro]
F#5 Fm G#5
Those better days ain't gonna come
G#5 F#5 Fm G#5
Those better days have passed us by
F#5 Fm G#5
Those better days have all run out
G#5 F#5 Fm G#5
'Cause those better days were a lie
G#5 F#5 C#5
Fall
G#5 F#5 C#5
Fall
G#5 F#5 C#5
Fall
Fall