Intro: C5 F5 (x4) C5 F5 The blood runs down my legs A5 G5 F5 I'm soaked through and through but I'm indifferent C5 F5 and there's thunder in my head A5 G5 F5 I can't hear a thing but it makes no difference. Eb5 F5 C5 Because now the empire will fall Eb5 F5 C5 and we'll be blamed for it all and I wouldn't have it any other way Interlude: C5 F5 A5 G5 F5 G5 (x2) C5 F5 The house went up in flames A5 G5 F5 and I sat and watched you from a distance C5 F5 the wood creek didn't complain A5 G5 F5 and the walls folded in and took her with them Eb5 F5 C5 And now the empire will fall Eb5 F5 C5 and we'll be blamed for it all and I wouldn't have it any other way Interlude: C5 F5 A5 G5 F5 G5 (x2) C5 E5 Lost along the way A5 G5 F5 quiet nights grassy roads abandoned homes G5 C5 and the smell of bones E5 but I don't mind A5 G5 F5 as long as you are along for the ride G5 C5 because you feel like home F5 you feel like home G5 C5 and you feel like home F5 cause you feel like home G5 C5 cause you feel like home E5 abandoned sky A5 G5 F5 a flock of birds some scattered clouds and not a wind G5 C5 E5 and the sounds of light, down in these fields A5 G5 F5 we don't have much beyond the clothes on our backs G5 C5 but it feels like home F5 but it feels like home G5 C5 but it feels like home F5 and it feels like home G5 C5 and it feels like F5 G5 C5 all the drafts another train has crashed the smoke runs from its sides F5 G5 A5 and I just pushed the remains aside and the piles a mile high G5 F5 C5 A5 i might lose these hands there's never a guarantee G5 F5 C5 and if i fall to pieces i would like to choose where i would land -Ben Malley
