Standard (EADGBE)

 Key: ,

Chords used:

Intro

Dm-- x8

Verse 1

City of blue tile

Figure in Ceramics

Where we reach out

Grab for Porce-

Chorus 1

 -lain But it's too fragile to hold

 And it shatters in our hands

 In time the seasons will

seal these shards

 Into the slits that

 denote your wrists

 Death is the answer

 To calculations composed

 of motions that are the same

 And secret and different

 A missing alphabet

 with a message for us

Verse 2

 When people die

(DIE,DIE!)

 They take a piece

 of us with them

(PEOPLE DIE AND DIE!)

 And holes in clouds

 are minutes passing

(DIE AND DIE!)

 Rescind this line

 and several ties

(PEOPLE DIE AND

DIE EVERYDAY!)

 The skyline unfolds

 into expla-

Chorus 2

 -nation That sometimes

words give up

 And silently walk off the

edge the edge of the page

 And here the cry opens up

 reveals the word inside

 The crack in the porcelain

 The crack in the porcelain

 The crack in the porcelain

Interlude

Bb--Dm--

Bridge

 The silent line of

 skylit eyes show

 The silent line of

 skylit eyes show

 The silent line of

 skylit eyes show

 The silent line of

 skylit eyes show

(Repeat)

D--

Sing in Backup:

Death up there shine

more brightly than

lives down here

Try and live

(Repeat Verse 2)

Outro

 -nation

 explanation

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

 Try and live

Bb Dm---(hold)

Try and live, live

Try and live

Try and live