Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

When I came down the dawn poured into me

I shook 'em up, the walls came crumbling

My thin skin trembling with these salty wounds

My stolen gold inside the emperors tomb

Now painting rainbows on my ugly face

I built this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace

But I ascend and serve my feverish need

Within the confines of such chemistry

Pre-chorus

It's the way I see

 Everything I need

 It's the way to be

Chorus

Let this be our little secret

No one needs to know we're feeling

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher

 But I feel alive and I feel it in me

up and up I keep on climbing

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher

Refrain

Verse 2

My face blew up at such a casual sight

The smattered colors of ecstatic fright

The rush above me to oblivion

Outlining wet sidewalks with halogen

Oh have you ever felt so goddamned strong?

How come it takes some people so damn long

He turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain

The citrus drawing out the scene it stains

Pre-chorus

Watch the basin drain

 As your life lines wane

 And you cant explain

 As your friends complain

You've caused all this pain

 And you proudly shame

 Your whole family's name

Chorus

Let this be our little secret

No one needs to know we're feeling

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher

 But I feel alive and I feel it in me

up and up I keep on climbing

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher

Bridge

Mother I can tell what you've been thinking

 staring at the stars on your ceiling

Thinking once there was a power that you were wielding

 And now I've hit the mark

 Stabbing at the dark

 And I cannot help but ignore the people staring at my scars

Chorus

Let this be our little secret

No one needs to know we're feeling

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher

 But I feel alive and I feel it in me

up and up I keep on climbing

Higher and higher and higher

Higher and higher and higher