Key: A
Introduction: A
C#m F#m
I left my friends
Bm A E
For the strangers of the town
A C#m F#m
Between doves and elephants
Bm A E
There can be no common ground
F#m C#m
Time obscures their dreary tongues
A E A
Makes a ghost of everyone
E A D
Call them what they are - a million shadows!
A F#m
I didn't send for you when I was meant to.
D
Lost a friend in you but then I meant to.
E
And only my skirts only my skirts miss you now.
A F#m
You told me that no matter where I went would be a prison
D
That the world is harsh I know it is but,
E
It only hurts it only hurts if you say, 'Ow!'
C#m D
The things that you don't think about don't exist.
A C#m F#m
The day I left, there was a lightning strike,
Bm A E
Left a border of flame,
A C#m F#m
I tasted carbon on the knife,
Bm F#m E
Felt the shape of your name.
F#m D
Everybody knew, the secret circus,
E A
Was a fairy tale, but I
A D
Thought I saw a big top in the darkness,
A
Should've heard the helicopter screaming
F#m
Everybody thought that they were dreaming
C#m D
Everything was hot, the ground was steaming
A
Voices calling out across the water
F#m
Firemen and tv news reporters
C#m D
Stepping on their video recorders
C#m D C#m D
Oh but cameras are liars I saw bears and there were tigers
A
Then I heard brass in the hiss of the propeller sound
F#m
And there were shuffles in the desert as the players gather round
C#m D
And there were faces in the vapours, there were acrobats and clowns
A
You always told me that I tend to overdramatise
F#m
But I have seen these things with my very own eyes
C#m
And then they faded into ether
D
And I don't know why
A
I guess I didn't hear the call for when the curtain died
C#m D Dm
Because the things you set on fire don't exist