Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

 And there were future reflections

 On the face and the hands

 On a green colored island

 On a primitive man

 It was the future reflecting

 It felt familiar but new

 A street was missing a building

 The kids had something to do

Chorus

There was a feeling the spirit was leaving

 Red like a marker

So my tribe, with my knife

Cut the heart from a lonely life

Verse

I saw patterns on floorboards

 Deep in the dust was a leader

 Someone was walking on floorboards

 Turned them from oak to cedar

He can assess the situation

I wrapped a string around my finger

 Into the forest with the young ones

I don't expect to be a winner

Chorus

But as long as you feel it, I'm a believer

 My heart is phosphor

Sea rolls and death tolls

 Break the surface don't break my bones

Off of the trail and off of your hands and

 Onto a new plan

Is the cost to stay lost

Forever in an empty skin

Pale and thin

If it's good, or if it's fortune, I can't tell

 But pieces come together for some reason just as well

Their guns couldn't see us

 There's a sea outside my door

And one day I'll appreciate

 The rush of blood and the washed out beat of the shore

And remember what it felt like

 To be alone, sitting in the sunlight

 All alone