EYou've (022100@1)got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichoked heart A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dyou're (xx0232@1)black eyes stalking through me Ewith (022100@1)a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get out A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dit's (xx0232@1)scratching your kidney wings E (022100@1)we're no longer feeding ourselves, the raccoons are eating our dreams A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dpushing (xx0232@1)past our feeblery to keep them out, this morning I heard one sing: C (x32010@1) Cthere's (x32010@1)a whole big world out there my son, be careful don't believe them. D (xx0232@1) Dthere's (xx0232@1)a crazy old lady in the sun, she's angry can't you feel it? C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1) Cif (x32010@1)you don't work hard you're no son of mine, well I've earned these riverbeds D (xx0232@1) D (xx0232@1) D (xx0232@1) D (xx0232@1) D (xx0232@1) D& (xx0232@1)I'll drown you out until you've made me proud if you won't learn you're better off dead. E (022100@1)so, I'm digging in this farm yard trying to find the seeds A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dforgetting (xx0232@1)all I have left in this world of course that includes me Eso (022100@1)I'm building and I'm learning and leaving nothing unsaid A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dall (xx0232@1)I am is all I have, I'll take this garden for my bed Eand (022100@1)these are not just words built like a city of dreams, we have no use for this kingdom A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1)I'm proud of you my friends, may your lives be a symphony of freedom C (x32010@1) DI (xx0232@1)don't want to live forever. I just want to live for now Ebut (022100@1)the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing me towards that plow C (x32010@1) Dso (xx0232@1)I'm digging in with both my hands, keeping one eye on the door EIf (022100@1)I go looking I'll probably find it, ...and get all I've been asking for C (x32010@1) DI (xx0232@1)don't want to live forever. I just want to live for me Ebut (022100@1)your faces just keep haunting ...sometimes it's all I see C (x32010@1) Dso (xx0232@1)I'm working hard at learning all I can I'm gonna give it all to you EI'll (022100@1)keep making payments, until we're all so straight and true EI (022100@1)want to paint seeds together, and follow you right up to the edge A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) Dfilled (xx0232@1)up and spilling like carried cups, and watch the sun go red Ebut (022100@1)there's poison right here in our water, and a shark somewhere in the well A (x02220@1) C (x32010@1) DI (xx0232@1)wanna show you my life, show me your life and tell me it's not the devil A (x02220@1) Slide up to 10th fret I guess I I feel the way I feel, you make me feel like I'm alive... A (x02220@1) Slide up to 10th fret and I'm alive, am I alive, i am alive so you can live... A (x02220@1) Slide up to 10th fret please come and live, why don't you live, you can live inside of me... A (x02220@1) Slide up to 10th fret there's a home for you inside me, inside of me there is a fire C (x32010@1) Dinside (xx0232@1)my fire, there is more fire, and in that fire there is truth Chord Progression repeats throughout slows down at "it's the beauty..." but we take our furnace-chests, and run em neck deep into that lake and let the coals stare us down, one last glare of doubt & hate but we were wrong, no I was wrong, we'll just be wrong about some things and it will never be, it can never be, it should never be this easy to wash away the fire that burns, we wash away our flame my eyes saw fire, my heart said escape i said my eyes saw fire, my heart did escape it's the beauty in the struggle has me going keeps me shook sometimes I can see it in your face God but not in the pages of a book and there's something in your eye that's asking I got no answers, just clues for a path to truth I thought it was you. but yeah, I thought it was me too. I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for us but the head on my shoulders keeps driving me to be careless our brains don't want to listen, ears squinting for some honesty it's gets slippery here, hold on....we are not ourselves probably I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for you but the devil round my doorway keeps singing me something new so I'm listening with idle hands cupped tight around both ears my minds open like a burned down house, I haven't died at all this year