Mad Childs Lament chords by Matt Pless

• Capo on 7th

G

G
Charcoal lines tracing time
C
Background of a sketchbook life
G                D             C
Hides inside the prison of her mind
G
Rainbow hair and vibrant lips
C
The devil twists her fingertips
G                  D             C
Scorns the angel's kiss she left behind
Am                                  D
She catches all the swirling colors from the afterglow
Am                                D
And paints herself into a corner then she calls it home
Am                                      D
She says when we're together that we're better off alone
             G                   D               Em
But then she draws the lines and calls me to her bed
      Am           D
And a sea of satin thread
          Am            D
where the truth is left u nsaid
       C                D            G
Yes, I think I made you up inside my head

G
Razor tongue, a warm embrace
C
Shades of guilt across her face
G            D            C
Vanishes without a trace again
G
She lies awake and talks to ghosts
C
Whispers secrets through the smoke
G                  D            C
Cause all she ever wanted was a friend
Am                                 D
She dances with the shadows of the lovers from her past
Am                                   D
She drags her pawns along the lonely chessboard made of glass
Am                                   D
She runs away from everything cause nothing good can last
             G                  D                   Em
And then she shuts her eyes and all the world drops dead
       Am                 D
And the tears were finely shed
     Am               D
on a canvas washed in red
       C                D            G
Yes, I think I made you up inside my head

C                Am               G
Winter weaves its cloak of frozen gray
C                 Am            G
Spring has never seemed so far away
C               D          Em          Am
You know how to hurt me so more than anyone I know
C                  D              G
Bruised and broken hoping you will stay

Am                             D
You opened up a window and you blindly closed the door
Am                                 D
Now everything is hollow where the silent lions roar
Am                                      D
There's nothing in here moving, I can't feel you anymore
              G                D              Em
I should have tried to catch a comet's tail instead
        Am               D
Cause I may have been misled
       Am          D
by the image I was fed
       C                D            Em
Yes, I think I made you up inside my head
       C                     D             G
Should have tried to catch a comet's tail instead
       C                     D               G
Should have tried to catch a comet's tail instead