Verse 1:
C Dm Am F
You say I don't understand, I say 'I know you
Don't'
C Dm Am F
We thought a cure would come through in time, now I fear
It won't
C Dm Am F
Remember looking at this room, we loved cuz of the light
C Dm Am F
Now I just sit in the dark, and wonder if it's time
Pre-Chorus
G Am F
Do I throw out everything we built or keep it?
G Am F
I'm getting tired even for a phoenix
G
Always rising from the ashes
Am
Mending all her gashes
F
You might just have dealt the final blow
Verse 2:
C G Am F
There was nothing left to do (ah, ah)
C G Am F
When the butterflies turned to dust that covered my
Whole room
C G Am F
So I punched a hole in the roof (ah, ah)
C G Am F
Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you
Bridge:
C G
How long could we be a sad song
Am G F
'Til we were too far gone to bring back to life?
C G
I gave you all my best me's, my endless empathy
Am G F
And all I did was bleed as I tried to be the
Bravest soldier
G Am
Fighting in only your army, frontlines, don't you
Ignore me
F
I'm the best thing at this party
(You're losing me)
G
And I wouldn't marry me either
Am
A pathological people pleaser
F
Who only wanted you to see her
And I'm fading, thinkin'
Am F
'Do something, babe, say something'
(Say something)
G C
'Lose something, babe, risk something'
(You're losing me)
Am F
'Choose something, babe, I got nothing'
(I got nothing)
G C Am F
'To believe, unless you're choosing me'
C G Am F
The drought was the very worst (ah, ah)
C G Am F
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of
Thirst