Orphans

Verse

D
Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
           Bb                C              D
I got this diamond that don't know how to shine
D
In the sun where these dark winds wail
          Bb                   C         D
and these children leave their rulers behind
      Bb        C              D
As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon
     F          G        D
with matchsticks for my bones
          Bb           C         F       G
If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive
         Bb                   C           D
We could learn to leave these burdens to burn

Chorus 1

F              C
Cast out these creatures of woe
G               D
Who shatter themselves
F          C        G         D
Fighting a fire with your bare hands

Verse
D
Now my journey takes me further south
          Bb            C          D
I want to hear what the blind men sing
D
With their fossils and their gypsy bones
            Bb               C       D
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone
Bb      C      D
How can I make new again
     F        G         D
What rusts every time it rains?
        Bb           C         F       G
And the rain, it comes and floods our lungs
          Bb           C              D
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake

Chorus 2
Bm                            D
If I wake up and see my maker coming
Bm                                     D
With all of his crimson and his iron desire
Bb                                       D
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing
      Am          G               F
To be loved or destroyed, from a void
     C        G            D
to a grain of sand in your hand

Interlude

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Outro

D Cadd9 Am C/G
 Ahhhh ooh ooh    x4