Capo 2 

D             Em                    Bm 
Like a marionette hanging from its strings 
D                     Em                 Bm 
You live you love you dance but it's not real 
          D 
So take a bow 
   Em             Bm 
Emaciated little thing 
          D              Em           Bm 
Cos you finally have the audience you need 


Instrumental: D, Em, Bm, G x2 


D                     Em              Bm 
Thinking back to your mother's lullabies 
        D                    Em             Bm 
How you dreamed of drifting free across the sky 
         D 
Now you drag 
          Em              Bm 
Your approximated cut-out wings 
           D                Em            Bm 
Show the fractures in your perfect porcelain 


D                 Em     Bm 
Don't waste your life away 
                   (A) 
A black heart's a noose 
   D                         Em          Bm 
So cut your strings and come down 
                    (A)          D 
I feel a different way 
         Em           Bm 
You see bruise I see bloom 
   D                   Em   Bm        G 
In everything you hear sound 


Instrumental: D, Em, Bm, G x2 


D             Em           Bm 
Like a Roman candle flickering 
       D            Em             Bm 
Oh how easily our dreams are extinguished 
       D 
And I know   
                Em                 Bm 
That you can't forget if you can't forgive 
         D              Em             Bm 
All the pain I see you burden yourself with 


D                 Em     Bm 
Don't waste your life away 
                   (A) 
A black heart's a noose 
   D                         Em          Bm 
So cut your strings and come down 
                    (A)          D 
I feel a different way 
         Em           Bm 
You see bruise I see bloom 
   D                   Em   Bm        G 
In everything you hear sound 


Instrumental: D, Em, Bm, G x4 


D             Em       Bm 
We waste our lives away 
With these laments to youth 
D            Em     Bm 
We're all lost anyway 
So cut your strings and come down 
D            Em        Bm 
We waste our lives away 
Looking for things to lose 
D            Em     Bm 
We're all lost anyway 
In everything you hear sound 

D            Em     Bm 
We waste our lives away 
Cos the black heart in you 
D            Em     Bm 
We're all lost anyway 
Is the only thing that I've found 
D            Em     Bm 
We waste our lives away 
That matters at all 
D            Em     Bm 
We're all lost anyway 

Outro: D, Em, Bm, G then end on D