Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Difficulty: Intermediate CAPO 2 Em D C The only question now is "How long can it take?" Em Am It's all hanging on you D G Em Just make your move before you have no move to make D C There's no future, there's no lighthouse on the lake Em Am You're just rambling through D G Em Endless corridors; ??a mouse lost in a maze
D C You gotta calm yourself and try to concentrate Em Am What survives in the fire? D Am C What small fragment after all else disintegrates? C The only question now's "How long 'til it breaks?" G Am Em C G Am Em C G Am I come home and the door is hanging open Em C The smoke alarm is howling, the bathroom mirror is broken G Am Em C Find you standing in the backyard pouring gas on the bonfire G Am Ass-naked in the middle of December Em C The shame you don't recall with the clothes you don't remember in flames G Am Em C Tearing pages of notebooks ??in the embers, your makeshift funeral pyre G Am I toss and turn all night then it comes to me Em C It's you that can't shake out the shards in your memory G Am Em So you've engaged in this scorched-earth policy C 'Til there's nothing, there's nothing G Am Em C G Am Em C G Am Em C G Am Em C G Am Later on, claiming wolves replaced your family Em C You raised your hand against me with the newspaper you can't read G Am Em C Then you wrapped yourself in an op-ed on the construct of history G Am The mark of time is elaborately long Em C It's a Spirograph drawn with no breaksâ??just goes on and on G Am Em C And here we are on the cutting room floor, slicing fugues G Am I toss and turn all night, but there's no relief Em C I went into your room, you were sound asleep G Am Em C So I stayed for awhile watching you grind your teeth G Am And when you wake, there's a moment as you rise Em C You feel it all coming back and you realize Am G D You tried to amputate the parts that made you scared to die Bm Now it'll kill you if you let it C G Am D As I watch the light fade from your eyes C G Am D As I watch the light fade from your eyes C Bm Am D As I watch the light fade from your eyes C Bm You're a black hole bending light beams backwards Am D Center caving, self-collapsing inwards C Bm Against the infinite and you have no stature Am D Shrinking infinitely out of the picture C Bm You pull the lever trying to break the pattern Am D C G Am Em C G Am Em See the crocus in the dead of Winter