D(3): x54030
Em: 022000
F: 133211
F*: x33210
G: 320001
G: x55430
A: x02220
Bm: x24430
(P.M): - Palm Mute
Intro: D(3) G D(3)
D(3) G D(3)
Hold your tongue the unwilling and the safe
G D(3)
Make your mark in your own tiny way
G Bm
Your own miniature firework display for one
D(3) G D(3)
Fear of facing the shadow on the shore
G D(3)
Tied in knots and hung out on the backdoor
G D(3) Bm
The 'boy-done-good' thoughts of valour and the all for one
A D
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Bm G D
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Em Bm
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
G A D(3) G D(3)
The worry of bearing the ghost in the machine
D(3) G D(3)
I eat your words and you mark my mistakes
G D(3)
We set the dictionary up to fail
G D(3) Bm G
The work of poets is a vapour we exhale it's gone
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D(3) G D(3)
Fleeting fondness is a flicker in your frown
G D(3)
Spilling out in adjectives and nouns
G Bm
A mess of letters once it's chewed and swallowed down all gone
A D
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Bm G D
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Em Bm
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
G A D(3) G D(3)
The worry of bearing the ghost in the machine
F
How do you feel pain?
C
(Tremors through the floor)
F
How do you hear sound?
Am
(Tapping on the walls)
F
I wish I could feel it all
G F (P.M)
(I wish I could feel it all)
G C
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Am F C
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Dm Am
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
Am G
The worry of bearing the ghost
F G
The worry of bearing the ghost
C F* C (P.M)
In the machine
