Intro: Am G Am E Am 

                                 Am 
The flowers by your bed are wilting. 
                              E 
The sun is setting in the west. 
                           E 
A fog is covering your eyes, 
                                   E 
Your stockings are attracting flies, 
                         Am                  E 
Decay is nibbling at the boards on which you rest. 

                                   Am 
There's someone waiting at your window, 
                        Dm 
Familiar face without a name. 
                                    E 
One night he'll creep in like the mist, 
                                E 
To touch your forehead with a kiss, 
                           Am                   E 
And lead you back into the void from whence you came. 


[Refrão]

                   F    E                       Am 
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do. 
         F                E         Am 
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too. 
                   F     E                 Am 
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown. 
Dm         Am              E                 Am 
    And we dance while the sky crashes down. 

C                                Am   E 
Like that the earth begins to quiver, 
Am                         E 
And all the oceans turn to black. 
                       E 
A ship of maniacs with knives, 
                                  E 
Are playing Blackjack with their lives, 
                           Am 
To kill the time until the giant rats attack. 

                         Am 
It's raining leprosy and acid. 
                              Dm 
The saints were taken out and shot. 
                            E 
When someone proffers you a pear, 
                          E 
You sink your teeth in unaware, 
                                Am             E 
That just beneath the skin lies pestilence and rot. 


[Refrão]

                   F    E                       Am 
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do. 
         F                E         Am           E 
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too. 
C                   F     E                 Am 
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown. 
Dm         Am              E                 Am 
    And we dance while the sky crashes down. 

Bridge 
F Am Dm 
Am F E Am C G 
Dm E G E Am 

Dm           Am            E            Am 
All that now breathes, and all that you love, 
Dm          Am                   F               E 
All that we weave, will find its way back to the dust. 

                       Am 
A band of skeletons is playing, 
                                  E 
Don't act like you don't know the tune. 
                           E 
Your part is echoed in the path, 
                           E 
Of every dead leaf blowing past, 
                       Am                E 
Against a counterpoint reflected off the moon. 

C                         Am 
There is a banquet at the table, 
        E                Dm 
Exotic cheeses wines and cakes. 
                       E 
And every one of us is damned, 
         C        E 
Until we start to understand, 
                        Am                   E 
That living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes. 


[Refrão]

                   F    E                       Am 
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do. 
         F                E         Am           E 
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too. 
C                   F     E                 Am 
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown. 
Dm         Am              E                 Am 
    And we dance while the sky crashes down. 

C                   F     E                Am 
When the stakes are high, best to play the clown. 
Dm            Am              C           F         G 
       And we dance while the sky crashes down.