Metal Fingers Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

A♯mStand and move and walk across the water.

C♯Peel the cover from the city.

G♯Watch its insides twitch and F♯smoke and rotate endlessly.

A♯mSinking. Moving deep beneath the water.

C♯Lots of other worlds exist.

G♯Soon enough we’ll tear them open.

F♯Soon enough we’ll break them too.

A♯mSwimming. Watching concrete eat the ocean.

C♯Metal fingers scrape the skies.

G♯The windows look like ChristmF♯as lights from out here.

A♯mFloating. Counting clouds. They’re slowly fading.

C♯Blending in with cardboard skies.

G♯Soon we’ll manufacture replicas.

F♯It’s all replaceable.

C♯From the sky, the train tracks look like stitches.

A♯mLike they’re holding the world together; like it’ll blow any minute.

G♯And I’ve got another thought I’ll keep to myself.

F♯Until the skeletons walk free. Until the make-up all comes off.

C♯There’s nothing new to discover, there’s nothing new to invent.

A♯mThere’s nothing new to think that hasn’t been thought of before.

G♯And there’s nothing to believe we haven’t already forgotten.

F♯There’s nothing left, there’s nothing new, there’s nothing—

CNo, no, no, no.

C♯And I’ve got another dream I’ll keep to myself.

A♯mUntil the tyrants are dead and the patriots are swallowed whole.

G♯And I’ve got a bottle I can aim at the center,

Full of letters, as a kid, I’d always meant to send.

F♯We’d speak our minds and change the world.

We’d fix the past and pave the way.

C♯But now we’re fresh out of heroes; now we’ve run dry on hope.

A♯mThere are no saviors in technology: just quick fixes.

 And holes, wiG♯thin holes, within holes, within you.

 And a placeF♯ to hang my head, and convince myself there is no difference.

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