Key: E
Introduction:
Band Bsus4fairly
track.
B E A E
When I'm riding home at night now
B E A E
I get in so tired
B E A E
To the saws and bows that spell out
B F#
But driving west now
B
Half-past five
F#
My skin is cut
B
My hands are knives
F#E B
I could be anyone alive
E A E
But I just can't fit
B E A E
And it's too late to quit
B4
When the night air comes to me
E
I wonder if the days I've lived through count
B4
With the world strung like a rosary
E
Through faces moving in the crowd
A E B4
What is the color and the number
E
When happiness begins?
A E B4
When the knight waits in the laurels
F#lºw E
Hesitating...
B
I found a clarity I've never known
E A E
In fag-end weeks before I left for school
C#
The darkness in the pylons
B
And the smoke and creosote
E A E
Cancelling the faces that we knew
E freak out on the E chord
B F# B
Did they forget the light inside your eyes?
F# B
Those simple words, those lovers' signs?
F# B
The hand is dealt, the cards are played
E A E
But I just can't fit
B E A E
And it's too late to quit
B4
I saw them, and I knew them all
E
Inside a sheet of flame
B4
I saw them, and I knew them all
E
Inside a sheet of flame
B E A E
When I'm riding home at night now
B E A E
I get in so tired
B E A E
To the saws and bows that spell out