Verse
B5 A5 B(aug) B5
How could we be so blind to the effects each time?
B5 A5
Why keep watching when you know the end?
B(aug) B5
Why make this journey again and again?
B5 A5
We know it's just pain and lies
B(aug) B5
Let's watch, feign surprise
B5 A5
Afraid to admit that it's all a facade
B(aug) B5 A5 D5 E5 B5
You wind up alone in spite of what they laud
B5 A5 D5 E5
B5 A5 D5 E5
B5 A5 D5 E5
[Verse 2]
B5 A5
Well I been marchin', so long
B(aug) B5
I towed that line, so strong
B5 A5
I kept holdin' until it tore me apart
B(aug) B5
Until it opened up my chest and ripped out my heart
B5 A5
So mother, may I please submit
B(aug) B5
The notion I no longer believe in this shit?
B5 A5
Lay me on the consummation bed
B(aug) B5 B5 A5 G#5
F# fatal blow driven to the maidenhead
[Chorus]
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
We're runnin on nothin'
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
But the fumes of our dreams
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
At another point in my life
G#m F#5
That was good enough for me
[Verse 3]
B5 A5
Short plume, fades fast
B(aug) B5
The petals fall and crash
B5 A5
Well, I believe one could put it best
B(aug) B5
We spend most of life dealin' with the mess
B5 A5
The saddest joy is that I concede
B(aug) B5
But the bitter resolution is why I secede
B5 A5
Sick of fallin' from the lowest low
B(aug) B5
The higher the height, the further you go
[Verse 4]
B5 A5
Pull myself back to bended knee
B(aug) B5
Just an emotion, it hurts physically
B5 A5
Swans mate for life or so I've heard
B(aug) B5 B5 A5 G#5
Which is fitting, because that shit's for the birds
[Chorus]
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
We're runnin on nothin'
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
But the fumes of our dreams
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
At another point in my life
G#m F#5 B5 A5 D5 E5
That was good enough for me
B5 A5 D5 E5
B5 A5 D5 E5
B5 A5 D5 E5
B5 A5 D5 E5
[Verse 5]
B5 A5
They leave, it hurts
B(aug) B5
See it comin', it's worse
B5 A5
Stiff upper lip try to carry on
B(aug) B5
Let's pretend this shit is makin' us strong
B5 A5
And we only can take so much
B(aug) B5
Before all our sense of decency is finally crushed
B5 A5
And all that's left is a dried out husk
B(aug) B5 B5 A5 G#5
With the belief that love isn't gonna save us
[Chorus]
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
We're runnin on nothin'
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
But the fumes of our dreams
E5 B5 B5 A5 G#5
At another point in my life
G#m F#5
That was good enough for me
[Outro]
E5 D#m F#5
Those better days ain't gonna come
F#5 E5 D#m F#5
Those better days have passed us by
E5 D#m F#5
Those better days have all run out
F#5 E5 D#m F#5
'Cause those better days were a lie
F#5 E5 B5
Fall
F#5 E5 B5
Fall
F#5 E5 B5
Fall
Fall