CAPO 2
[Intro]
Em D C
The only question now is "How long can it take?"
Em Am
It's all hanging on you
D G Em
Just make your move before you have no move to make
D C
There's no future, there's no lighthouse on the lake
Em Am
You're just rambling through
D G Em
Endless corridors; ??a mouse lost in a maze
D C
You gotta calm yourself and try to concentrate
Em Am
What survives in the fire?
D Am C
What small fragment after all else disintegrates?
C
The only question now's "How long 'til it breaks?"
[Interlude]
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
[Verse 1]
G Am
I come home and the door is hanging open
Em C
The smoke alarm is howling, the bathroom mirror is broken
G Am Em C
Find you standing in the backyard pouring gas on the bonfire
G Am
Ass-naked in the middle of December
Em C
The shame you don't recall with the clothes you don't remember in flames
G Am Em C
Tearing pages of notebooks ??in the embers, your makeshift funeral pyre
[Chorus 1]
G Am
I toss and turn all night then it comes to me
Em C
It's you that can't shake out the shards in your memory
G Am Em
So you've engaged in this scorched-earth policy
C
'Til there's nothing, there's nothing
[Interlude]
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
[Verse 2]
G Am
Later on, claiming wolves replaced your family
Em C
You raised your hand against me with the newspaper you can't read
G Am Em C
Then you wrapped yourself in an op-ed on the construct of history
G Am
The mark of time is elaborately long
Em C
It's a Spirograph drawn with no breaksâ??just goes on and on
G Am Em C
And here we are on the cutting room floor, slicing fugues
Where they don't belong
[Chorus 2]
G Am
I toss and turn all night, but there's no relief
Em C
I went into your room, you were sound asleep
G Am Em C
So I stayed for awhile watching you grind your teeth
G Am
And when you wake, there's a moment as you rise
Em C
You feel it all coming back and you realize
Am G D
You tried to amputate the parts that made you scared to die
Bm
Now it'll kill you if you let it
C
[Bridge]
G Am D
As I watch the light fade from your eyes
C
G Am D
As I watch the light fade from your eyes
C
Bm Am D
As I watch the light fade from your eyes
[Outro]
C Bm
You're a black hole bending light beams backwards
Am D
Center caving, self-collapsing inwards
C Bm
Against the infinite and you have no stature
Am D
Shrinking infinitely out of the picture
C Bm
You pull the lever trying to break the pattern
Am D C G Am Em C G Am Em
See the crocus in the dead of Winter