Tuning: E A D G B E Standard
(INTRO)
D5 Bb5 C5 A5
D5 Bb5 C5 A5
D5
(VERSE)
D5
Everything that isn't from my time and place
D5 C5
Just fades away
D5
And I know it's only my perception
A5 Bb5
That clouds the things I want to hear you say
D5
All the years of desperation
D5 C5
like a child without the sense to dream
D5
About a life of foolish pride
A5
How can I illustrate
Bb5 D5
Annihilate it now
(CHORUS)
D5
This is everything I am
Bb5
But is it all you've ever grown to see inside
C5 A5
a broken mirror for my pride
D5 D5
And there's an emptiness I feel
Bb5
And there's a silence to my dreams
These painful reveries
C5 A5 D5
Still punctuate those tragedies I've seen
(VERSE)
D5
Nobody promised that I'd be down
D5 C5
It's like the savage side we've found
D5
Conventions we've agreed to follow
A5 Bb5
Defined by safe obscurity
D5
Applications balking at protest
D5 C5
We sequester and words divide
D5
Would I resign if I broke your silence
A5 Bb5
And trampled myself down inside
(CHORUS)
D5 D5
This is everything I am
Bb5
But is it all you've ever grown to see inside
C5 A5
a broken mirror for my pride
D5 D5
And there's an emptiness I feel
Bb5
And there's a silence to my dreams
These painful reveries
C5 A5 D5
Still punctuate those tragedies I've seen
D5
(POST-CHORUS)
F5 G5
And if I hold you in my dreams
D5
How will I recognize your face
F5 G5 D5
And your silent discontent
F5 G5
(OUTRO)
F5 G5
And will my heroes find me there
D5
In another time and place
F5 G5 D5
Will I regret the time we spent?
F5 G5 D5
And all the symbols we've erased
F5 G5 D5
Or the words we never traced
D5
