[Verse 1]
Dm F Bb
Not whole, not wholly separate, but syncopated
C Dm
Single in our nature, and because of the times
F
Not a word was said when the lights came on
Bb C
Or a glance given pause at the cost of our desired wrongs
Dm F
It's second nature to love you, it's first to die
Bb C Dm
And we were killed upon waking, killed upon waking to the life
F
We weren't prepared to live but rebelled to realize
Bb C
We were killed upon the pavement, Bonnie we're immortalized in
[Chorus]
Dm F
Blood, cold, cold love, we were still young
Bb C
When the radio lights came on
Dm F
Elton's on the air, no fair dear that we were still here
Bb C
In the absence of everything, abstain from fear
Dm
And if I cry in your arms
F Bb
Just some other shit, just some other shit
C
Just some other things that I've been dealing with
Dm F
I'd die in your arms, bury me while playing this
Bb C
Bury me saying "You were all I ever needed"
Dm F
And hold me like we're dying from the liquor that we drank
Bb C
Down in hotel rooms, to feel warm in cold love
[Verse 2]
Dm F
What's harder, harder to say?
Bb
That you want me to stay
C Dm
That you want me to stay unchanged for you?
F Bb C
Chained to a lie, we're the same, you and I, we're the same
Dm F Bb
Not the same, we hurt differently, but consistent in our pain
C Dm
Equal and equidistant in the way we laugh
F
To lay bare the weight of our cold love affair
Bb C
Recalling the days where we were, we weren't, we were
Dm F
Wrong for the papers, wrong for the dinner tables
Bb C
Of the inner rings of the rich and famous anythings
Dm F Bb
It's gone, not bad, just gone, my bad, just wrong, we had
C
And we had, and we were then in
[Chorus]
Dm F
Blood, cold, cold love, we were still young
Bb C
When the radio lights came on
Dm F
Elton's on the air, no fair dear that we were still here
Bb C
In the absence of everything, abstain from fear
Dm
And if I cry in your arms
F Bb
Just some other shit, just some other shit
C
Just some other things that I've been dealing with
Dm F
I'd die in your arms, bury me while playing this
Bb C
Bury me saying "You were all I ever needed"
Dm F
And hold me like we're dying from the liquor that we drank
Bb C
Cown in hotel rooms, to feel warm in cold love
[Outro]
Dm F
What's harder, harder to say?
Bb
That you want me to stay
C Dm
That you want me to stay unchanged for you?
F Bb C
Chained to a lie, we're the same, you and I, we're the same
Dm F
What's harder, harder to fake?
Bb
That you want me to stay
C Dm
That you want me to stay the same for you?
F Bb C
Chained to a lie, who's to blame? Let it die, we're the same
Dm F
In blood, cold, cold love, we were still young
Bb C
When the radio lights came on
Dm Bb F
Elton's on the air