Lawrence Arms
Faintly Falling Ashes
Cocktails And Dreams
2005 Fat Wreck Chords
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: G
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Em - 022000
C -  x32010
G -  320033
D -  xx0232
Verse 1:
Em        G
  another senseless week
   C
of crowded thoughts and
             Em
crooked teeth  morning
G                C
frost and frozen sidewalks
Em          G
  all those days
            C
that burn inside us
swell up in the
Em          D
silence of snowflakes
        C
falling magically
Chorus 1:
G               D
  but the magic fades
         Em
into the memory
G              D
  sleigh bells ringing
G          C
  laughing all the way
G               D
  cold hands of winter
           Em
grasp as i gasp for
       D
breath is this my
G
last? no thoughts of
C    G
dying no more self
D              Em D G D C
loathing for today
Em D G D C
Verse 2:
Em            D
  so deck the halls
             C
with drunken folly
            Em
swallow resolutions
          G
line our stomachs
       C
with illusions
Em             G
  car engines sputtering
C
  like these smoke filled
      Em      G
dreams  mistletoes
            C
and colored lightbulbs
Chorus 2:
G
  and the kiss of winter
D              Em
fades into the memory
G        D      G
  angels singing lift
   C
me off the ground
G              D
  yesterday is frozen
       Em
in the reverie
G             C
  tomorrow is melting
G
  let's raise our
D
glasses to these
C               D    G G(hold)
faintly falling ashes