[G#m] Fire on the porch on a summer's night
[E] All of my things are there inside
[B] Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher [D#7]
[G#m] I smell leaves and burning tires
[E] Dogs in the meadows barking wild
[B] Blackbird rise up, tell me what you have [D#7] done
[G#m] I'm not drunk and I'm not sad
[E] There's nothing inside that I want back
[B] Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're [D#7] at
[G#m] Do you wonder how I am tonight
[E] Then don't loose time looking in my eyes
[B] Not every tear means you're gonna [D#7] cry
From the bottom of my [E] heart
Comes a cold dark [B] feeling
There is nothing but [D#7] dust
in the layers, I'm [G#m] peeling
From the bottom of my [E] heart
Beats a rattling [B] drum
coming up from the [D#7] depths
Into the rays of the [G#m] sun
[G#m] Now, under crushing skies of grays
[E] Paralyzed with phantom pains
[B] Before this room became just a [D#7] place
[G#m] Where I just sleep through endless days
[E] Spinning webs and carving names
[B] Where thoughts break up, exploding in [D#7] space
[G#m] But I once crossed a quarter-mile
[E] Through black pools of razor wires
[B] And cut through steel
[D#7] with the edge of a file
[G#m] While singing rhapsodies in stride
[E] Hellbent and dignified
[B] But my time has come
[D#7] Who you fooling and why?
From the bottom of my [E] heart
Comes a cold dark [B] feeling
There is imminent [D#7] death
to the promise, I'm [G#m] keeping
From the bottom of my heart[E]
Comes an army of one[B]
Marching back up the [D#7] steps
Into the rays of the [G#m] sun
[G#m] Pale-faced and hollowed eyes
[E] Buried under ruptured skies
[B] Not every smile means I'm laughing [D#7] inside
[G#m] Two-faced and compromised
[E] I've enraptured you with lies
[B] Everything means nothing
and tonight everything is [D#7] mine
From the bottom of my [E] heart
Comes a cold dark [B] feeling
I have buried so [D#7] much
In the layers, I'm [G#m] peeling
From the bottom of my [E] heart
A battle will [B] come
Marching back up the [D#7] steps
To the rays of the [G#m] sun
From the bottom of my [E] heart
Comes a cold dark [B] feeling
Wrapped around [D#7] tight
With no sign of [G#m] leaving
From the bottom of my [E] heart
A ballad is [B] sung
Through a whisper, she [D#7] comes
Into the rays of the [G#m] sun