C Am G F I said to you on the night that we met, "I am not well C Am G F Our habits secrete to the sidewalk and street, our civic hell C Am G F We covet the dark, share a cab to the park and you let me C Am Speak of bearings undone, silver hair in the sun G F C F We are only 30% dead and our parents go to sleep early C F C F G We destroy all of our esteem and the sunlight starts to shine through the trees C Am G F x2 C Am G F The noise on this block keeps my mind interlocked and unfastened C Am G F We struggle shed skin, heavy breath is a deadly assassin C Am G F My sister's eyes flood like rivers or wine in your absence C Am So we echo each song to which you'd sing along G F A surrogate hymn and we'll sing it again C F And we'll smoke til our pockets are empty G F A person cannot live without sleep C F And you can't hold up a story so heavy G We tell it so rarely C F And in this place I think about you C F The spirits and veins that you run through C F And in this place I think about you