Senses Fail - Safe House
[Gm] [F]
I'm climbing out of the hole that I've been digging
[Eb] [F]
throwing out all the blueprints I had drawn up for the safe house.
[Gm] [F]
I've stashed away enough food for forty days, gallons of water
[Eb] [F]
first aid and propane and some wine to entertain.
[Eb] [Bb]
I'm always planning for the worst.
[F]
I signed my will right after birth.
[Eb] [F]
I've got my eulogy rehearsed.
[Gm] [Eb]
I fall to pieces and I get weak in the knees
[Bb] [F]
when I think about eternity.
[Gm] [Eb]
Have I been led astray? Feeling like fate forgot me
[Bb] [F] [Gm]
He had the right name but the wrong street.
[Gm] [F]
I'm pulling nails out from the coffin
[Eb]
I'm gasping for air. my eyes are full just
[F]
like the moon, I've got a silver bullet stare.
[Gm] [F]
The holy grail that I once thought was fiction but
[Eb] [F]
the fact is that it's not in communion with my thoughts.
[Eb] [Bb] [F]
The vultures circle overhead, hanging like halos for the dead
[Eb] [F]
But I'm not suited for one yet.
[Gm] [Eb]
I fall to pieces and I get weak in the knees
[Bb] [F]
when I think about eternity.
[Gm] [Eb]
Have I been led astray? Feeling like they forgot me
[Bb] [F] [Eb]
He had the right name but the wrong street.
[Eb] [Bb] [F]
I'm a number in a lottery.
[Eb] [Bb] [F] [Gm] ...
Life's a boardwalk game god rigged to cheat.
[Gm] ... [F] ... [Cm] ... ...
[Gm] ... [F] ... [Cm] ... ...
[Bb] [F] [Eb]
As the snow falls all along the peaks
My mind's an avalanche I'm digging through to reach
[Bb] [F] [Eb]
All the things I tried to shove down deep
My mind's an avalanche I'm digging through to reach.
[Eb] [F]
and I could run but with its speed,
[Gm] [F] [Eb] ...
I'm bound to be buried here underneath
[Eb] [F]
A tidal wave triggered to teach that
[Gm] [F] [Eb]
life on an island isn't what it seems
[Cm] [Eb] [F]
I'm cutting off my toes just so that I can spite my feet.
[Gm] [Eb]
I fall to pieces and I get weak in the knees
[Bb] [F]
when I think about eternity.
[Gm] [Eb]
Have I been led astray? Feeling like they forgot me
[Bb] [F] [Gm]
He had the right name but the wrong street.
