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Chords in this song4
Intro
Am F C G x3
Verse 1
A digital flash in a dark-lit room,
A picture of a face wrapped up in gloom.
You sent it to me, didn't tell a soul else,
Leaving all the gossip sitting on the shelf.
You tore up the contract, threw away the ring,
Now you're staring at the wall where the posters swing.
And I'm sitting on my hands trying not to text back,
Watching all the train lines run off the track.
Chorus
Sixteen kilometers of cold grey tar!
Sixteen kilometers and a busted guitar!
I’m biting on my tongue till it tastes like rust,
Watching everything you built turn right back to dust.
Yeah, it turns to dust.
Verse 2
We usually talk in a major scale,
But tonight the whole city feels hollow and pale.
I want to be the rescue, want to be the spark,
Want to drive the twenty minutes straight through the dark.
But you're bleeding out a history I didn't create,
And I'm standing at the perimeter, guarding the gate.
A Gemini silent, a Libra undone,
Hiding what I want from the very first run.
Bridge
(The bass gets heavy, vocals get grittier and raw)
So I lock myself away with the wood and the wire,
Pressing down hard till my fingers are on fire.
Strumming out the static till the calluses crack,
Painting the neck with a dark red bloody track.
Yeah, my hands are bleeding on the steel of the strings,
Chasing down the rhythm of the damage it brings.
You're crying down a screen, I'm tearing up my skin-
Where do your old secrets end and where do I begin?
(All instruments explode back in full volume)
Where do I begin?!
Solo
(Play the chord progression fast and heavy, letting the distortion ring out)
Am F C G x2
Outro
(Slowing down slightly, heavy emphasis on every word)
Sixteen clicks down a straight line.
Tell me that you're gonna be fine.
I'm twenty minutes out.
Just give me the shout.
Twenty minutes out.
Give me the shout.
The static in the air...
Yeah, it's hanging right there.
(End abruptly on a heavy, ringing stroke of Am)
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