Key: D
Introduction: D
G
D
D
G
D
Hold your tongue the unwilling and the safe
G
D
Make your mark in your own tiny way
G
Bm
Your own miniature firework display for one
D
G
D
Fear of facing the shadow on the shore
G
D
Tied in knots and hung out on the backdoor
G
D
Bm
The 'boy-done-good' thoughts of valour and the all for one
A
D
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Bm
G
D
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Em
Bm
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
G
A
D
G
D
The worry of bearing the ghost in the machine
D
G
D
I eat your words and you mark my mistakes
G
D
We set the dictionary up to fail
G
D
Bm
G
The work of poets is a vapour we exhale it's gone
D
G
D
Fleeting fondness is a flicker in your frown
G
D
Spilling out in adjectives and nouns
G
Bm
A mess of letters once it's chewed and swallowed down all gone
A
D
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Bm
G
D
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Em
Bm
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
G
A
D
G
D
The worry of bearing the ghost in the machine
F
How do you feel pain?
C
(Tremors through the floor)
F
How do you hear sound?
Am
(Tapping on the walls)
F
I wish I could feel it all
G
F
(P.M)
(I wish I could feel it all)
G
C
It's the beetle in the box that shakes in your hands
Am
F
C
And it's formed out of feelings I don't understand
Dm
Am
They're mapped in the gaps and the spaces between
Am
G
The worry of bearing the ghost
F
G
The worry of bearing the ghost
C
F
C
In the machine
Music by Admiral Fallow.