Key: E5 , B5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Intro: E- - C#m- - Abm-- x2
Verse 1:
E5
All of your pretty things
C#5
Your petty pretty
Ab5 B5
things are gone
E5
the ground beneath your feet
C#5 Ab5 B5
isn't the stable earth you thought
Interlude: E- - C#m- - Abm--
Verse 2:
E5
A song so sweetly sung
C#5 Ab5 B5
as if the offer would rescind
E5
credit all firsthand accounts
C#5
With need to write
Ab5 B5
about and spin
E5 C#5
mistakes they're all mistakes
they're all mistakes
Chorus:
B5
But on the way down
F#5
On the way down
E5 C#5
Before you can see
B5
But all the way down
F#5 E5
You laugh with the pieces
You just can't
C#5 B5
explain it all away
Away the damage
F#5
And after you atone
E5 C#5
This is all you have to show
Post Biss: E- - C#m- - Abm-- x2
Verse 2:
E5
All of your pretty things
C#5
Those petty pretty things
Ab5 B5
You lost
E5
Discerning taste of greed
C#5
The who you used to be
Ab5 B5 E5
Was awful to be true
C#5
But now we see you
Now we see you
(Repeat Chorus)
Interlude: B-- x4
Bridge:
B5
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
(Repeat x8)
Outro:
Abm- - Ebm- - F#- - B- - Abm- - Eb5 - F#5
B- - Abm- - Eb5 - F#- x4 B(hold)