Tuning: Standard
( B5 ) ( A5 )
With the door closed, shades drawn, the world shrinks.
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 ) ( A5 )
Let's open up those blinds. But someone has to sweep the floor,
( G5 ) ( F#5 ) ( A5 )
pick up her dirty clothes. That job's not mine.
( B5 ) ( A5 )
Now that everyone's an enemy, my heart sinks.
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 )
Let's put away those claws.
( A5 ) ( G5 ) ( F#5 )
I don't blame them for their curtains-calls because I pulled the rope.
( A5 )
I wanna call them back out for applause.
( B5 ) ( A5 )
Spring and Thompson on the first of May is horrible.
( D5 )( F#5 )( G5 ) ( A5 )
We hid in catacombs. So now I'm sleeping next to mousetraps,
( G5 ) ( F#5 ) ( A5 )
in a bed of all our clothes, while I hope that she won't come home.
( B5 ) ( A5 ) ( D5 )( F#5 )( G5 )
It was easier to lock the doors and kill the phones than to show my skin,
( A5 ) ( G5 ) ( F#5 )
because the hardest thing is never to repent for someone else,
( A5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( A5 )
it's letting people in.
( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( A5 )
( B5 ) ( A5 )
Well you can come inside, unlock the door, take off your shoes.
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 )
But this might take all night,
( A5 ) ( G5 ) ( F#5 )
to explain to you I would have walked out those sliding doors,
( A5 )
but the timing never seemed right.
( B5 ) ( A5 )
When your helicopter came and tried to lift me out,
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 )
I put its rope around my neck.
( A5 ) ( G5 ) ( F#5 )
And after that you didn't bother with the airlift or the rescue
( A5 )
- you knew just what to expect.
( B5 )
That with the door closed,
( A5 )
shades drawn, we're dead enough.
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 )
They don't open from outside.
( A5 ) ( G5 ) ( F#5 )
And someone has to speak with their teeth behind their tongue,
( A5 )
to never let that right be denied.
( B5 ) ( A5 )
We can't rely on photographs and visitation time,
( D5 ) ( F#5 ) ( G5 )
but I just don't know where to begin.
( A5 )
I wanna bust down the door,
( G5 ) ( F#5 )
if you're willing to forgive.
( A5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( B5 ) ( D5 ) ( A5 )
I've go the keys, I'm letting people in.
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( G5 ) ( D5 )
Don't be scared to speak,
( A5 )
don't speak with someone's tooth,
( G5 ) ( D5 )
don't bargain when you're weak,
( A5 )
don't take that sharp abuse.
( G5 ) ( D5 ) ( A5 )
Some patients can't be saved, but that burden's not on you.
( G5 ) ( D5 ) ( A5 )
Don't ever let anyone tell you you deserve that. x9
