Thursday Cross Out The Eyes Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com Key: F Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: F - 133211 Dm - xx0231 Bb - x13331 C - x32010 Gm - 355333 Am - x02210
Intro: Drumbeats Verse 1: Dm Let's call this the quiet city Where screams are felt Bb as a wave of stoplights C Drive through the streets as F gunshots punctuate the night Dm The sides we take divide Bb us from our faith C And the morning dove gets Dm caught in the telephone wire Dm Asleep you set the fire F in your own house And the night was Bb a knife that cut C And I'm para-- Chorus 1: Dm --lyzed Dm Cross out the eyes Dm Blur all the lines C Tearing this canvas Dm from the wall Dm We crossed out the eyes Dm Put lines through these cries C We pulled all the leaves Dm from the trees that fall (your trees that fall your trees that fall your trees that fall your trees that fall) Verse 2: F A silent dance that we Bb did into this hospital bed Dm Hear voices from another room F "It happens all the time" Dm but you leave in the sand Bb the leaves fallen C counting down days to live Drain the blood Bb from this valentine! Dm "We can rise on the Bb wings of the dove Dm See blue skies getting caught Bb in the trail of all this smoke Dm We can rise like candles in Bb the dark-yours always" C and an envelope marked with Dm your new address Dm Asleep you set the fire F in your own house And the night was Bb a knife that cut C And I'm para-- Chorus 2: Dm --lyzed Dm Cross out the eyes Dm Blur all the lines C Tearing this canvas Dm from the wall Dm We crossed out the eyes Dm Put lines through these cries C We pulled all the leaves Dm from the trees that fall Bridge: Bb (Cross out the eyes!) (Blur all the lines!) C (Cries!) (Repeat) Dm(hold) Interlude: Am your cries!! Verse 3: Am It was the first time face to face I'm crossing the line Talking to the other side of death Hearing the words that choke memories into flatlines I'm calling your name hoping for something to wash these dreams of you away Dm Bb Dm Bb Dm Bb C-- (till we die!) Dm Bb Dm Bb Dm Bb C-- (memories in flatlines!) Chorus 3: Dm Cross out the eyes when C you said all these lies Dm Cross out the eyes when Gm you said all these lies Outro: F Fence was blown down in a Gm winter storm and this field (cross out the eyes!) Dm Stretches out of this Gm world into the sound (A trace of!) F What can we do put a stop to Gm the coming white days (In a love song!) Dm I'm hoping for something to wash C(hold) these dreams of you away (Stretches out of this world Lets drive back the dead Stretches out of this world
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