Key: C
Introduction:
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Verse
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Today, I climbed the highest mountain I have ever climbed
F C
And I turn, to look at ruins I had left behind
F C F
And you, where were you so far removed from any truth
Am Bb
I lost you, didn't I?
F
But first I think I lost myself
F C
Children, then and forever locked in a memory
F C
Olden, that mirror searching for some kind of certainty
F C
That you were just the same as everyone
F
But you were wrong
Am Bb
And it hurt you, didn't it?
F
All you couldn't be
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
Verse
F C
I tried to hold on to some kind of dignity
F C
Too long I waded through a vast and endless sea
F C F
Thinking, I could find the secret there within
Am Bb
But I gave up, didn't I?
F
Seemed the only way
F C
Ruins, all the things we built assured that they would last
F C F
Ending months ticket stubs, and written notes and photographs
C F
Where are you and here somewhere I cannot go
Am Bb
I'm sorry, I am
F
But I don't take it back
Bridge
Bb F
And in the night I hear your voice
Bb F
Sometimes but it quickly passes
Bb F
In dreams I saw what I had thought
Bb C
Could be some kind of answer
Bb
You try and try and try until you cannot try no more
F
Captured in our own
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
Ruins
N.C.