Key: C
Introduction:
F# B
We get in our own way, tripping on our feet.
F# B
Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak.
D#m B F#
Drowning in a place, where the night cannot escape, commit ourselves into the
B
depths, exposed against a page.
D#m C# F# D#m C# D#m
Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds, a flash, a flood, and it's burned
into our eyes.
F# C# F#
I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night.
C# F#
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen.
F# C# F# C#
It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we
B
have lost inside the lines between.
B C# D#m
Between the black and white, where everything goes grey, and everything's
C# B C#
unsaid, undone, and the negative bleeds away to reveal the memory that we've
D#m C#
waited for so long for the image shifts and the acid drips down the paper to
the floor.
D#m C# F# D#m C# D#m
Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds, a flash, a flood, and it's burned
into our eyes.
F# C# F#
I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night.
C# F#
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen.
F# C# F# C#
It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we
B
have lost inside the lines between.
D#m C# B F# D#m
We're so nervous to see if we've let too much in, if we, if we were out of
C#
focus or out of frame.
F# D#m C# F# D#m
I know it's a moment of truth, if a recollection reflects reality,
C#
or if it's lost forever.
F# C# F# B
I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night.
C# F#
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen.
F# C# F# C#
It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we
F#
have lost inside the lines between.
F# C# D#m C#
I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last.
F#
The image is still there, unseen.