Intro: C5

Muted strumming during "One... Two..."

C5                      G5
The only girl I've ever loved
C5                      G5
Was born with roses in her eyes
C5                     G5
But then they buried her alive
          D5        C5
One evening 1945
            D5                G5
With just her sister at her side
         D5               C5
And only weeks before the guns
             D5                  G5
All came and rained on everyone
            D5               C5
Now she's a little boy in Spain
           D5                G5
Playing pianos filled with flames
         D5                   C5
On empty rings around the sun
            D5                 G5
All sing to say my dream has come


                C5          G5
But now we must pick up every piece
       C5              G5
Of the life we used to love
        C5        G5
Just to keep ourselves
            C5                D5
At least enough to carry on

Same as Verse 1:
And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

                C5          G5
But now we must pick up every piece
       C5              G5
Of the life we used to love
        C5        G5
Just to keep ourselves
            C5                D5
At least enough to carry on

                C5           G5
And here's where your mother sleeps
            C5            G5            D5
And here is the room where your brothers were born
       C5       G5
Indentions in the sheets
                  C5            G5      D5
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
            C5         G5         C5          G5
And it's so sad to see the world agree
                        C5                D5
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
           C5                    D5             G5
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

Play C, G repeating until the end