Bbm
Stand and move and walk across the water.
C#
Peel the cover from the city.
G#F#
Watch its insides twitch and smoke and rotate endlessly.
Bbm
Sinking. Moving deep beneath the water.
C#
Lots of other worlds exist.
G#
Soon enough we?ll tear them open.
F#
Soon enough we?ll break them too.
Bbm
Swimming. Watching concrete eat the ocean.
C#
Metal fingers scrape the skies.
G#F#
The windows look like Christmas lights from out here.
Bbm
Floating. Counting clouds. They?re slowly fading.
C#
Blending in with cardboard skies.
G#
Soon we?ll manufacture replicas.
F#
It?s all replaceable.
C#
From the sky, the train tracks look like stitches.
Bbm
Like they?re holding the world together; like it?ll blow any minute.
G#
And I?ve got another thought I?ll keep to myself.
F#
Until the skeletons walk free. Until the make-up all comes off.
C#
There?s nothing new to discover, there?s nothing new to invent.
Bbm
There?s nothing new to think that hasn?t been thought of before.
G#
And there?s nothing to believe we haven?t already forgotten.
F#
There?s nothing left, there?s nothing new, there?s nothing?
N.C.
No, no, no, no.
C#
And I?ve got another dream I?ll keep to myself.
Bbm
Until the tyrants are dead and the patriots are swallowed whole.
G#
And I?ve got a bottle I can aim at the center,
Full of letters, as a kid, I?d always meant to send.
F#
We?d speak our minds and change the world.
We?d fix the past and pave the way.
C#
But now we?re fresh out of heroes; now we?ve run dry on hope.
Bbm
There are no saviors in technology: just quick fixes.
G#
And holes, within holes, within holes, within you.
F#
And a place to hang my head, and convince myself there is no difference.
CBGF#