Key: D
Introduction:
Bb C
Pre-verse
Bb C
verse 1
D
What cause have I to feel glad?
Bb C
I've built my life on judgment and causing pain.
D Bb C
I don't know those eyes I see in the bloodstained chrome.
D
Now everything that I've had
Bb C
and everything I've known have been thrown away.
D Bb C
And with time I've come to find this isn't my home.
Chorus
D C G
I-I-I've stroked the fire, seen more pain that you can know.
Bb A Bb D
The tears of the broken have washed away my soul.
D C A
Pushed by desire to change the way my stream will flow,
Bb A Bb D
now I've awoken, and I'm taking back control.
Bb D
I try my best to block out the screams,
but they're haunting me in my dreams.
Bb
Please break my shackles,
C
I want it to stop.
Verse break
D
I man these wretched machines.
Bb C
Day in, day out, the grinding wears on my brain.
D Bb C
Undermining my sanity, making me question my reality.
D
But life is not as it seems.
Bb C
Should I take a chance of freedom and throw it all down the drain?
D Bb C
I've been imprisoned, please burn my transgressions away.
Chorus
D C G
I-I-I've stroked the fire, seen more pain that you can know.
Bb A Bb D
The tears of the broken have washed away my soul.
D C A
Pushed by desire to change the way my stream will flow,
Bb A Bb D
now I've awoken, and I'm taking back control.
Bb D
I try my best to block out the screams,
but they're haunting me in my dreams.
Bb
Please break my shackles,
C
I want it to stop.
Interlude
Bb C
Chorus
D C G
I-I-I've stroked the fire, seen more pain that you can know.
Bb A Bb D
The tears of the broken have washed away my soul.
D C A
Pushed by desire to change the way my stream will flow,
Bb A Bb D
now I've awoken, and I'm taking back control.
D C G
I'm sick of hurting, sick of thinking it's all I do.
Bb A Bb D
I break those around me, those spared are very few.
D C A
But the bright sun is burning, and my sky shines ever blue.
Bb A Bb D
Friendships surround me, I'm becoming a part of you.
Bb D
I try my best to block out the screams,
but they're haunting me in my dreams.
Bb
Please break my shackles,
C
I want it to stop.
Outro