Standard (EADGBE)

Our love is dead but without limit,

like the surface of the moon

or the land between here and the mountains.

Well, it is not these hiding places

that have kept us innocent

but the way you taught me to just let it all go by.

And so we've learned to be as faithless,

stand behind bulletproof glass,

exchanging our affections through a drawer.

And it was always horribly convenient

and happening too fast.

You should count your change before you're even out the door.

Yes, you should but please...

Return, return to the person that you were.

And I will do the same

cause it is too hard to belong to someone who is gone.

My compass spins. The wilderness remains.

Once too often, I have retreated

into the depths of my despair.

I built a barricade to block you on the road.

I was standing there with all of my possessions

piled higher than a house,

I felt closer to you than you ever would have known.

So let each tiny acts of charity

be common ground on which to build

the monument that will commemorate our times.

And though, you swear you've found another

who will surely speed you on your way,

don't let the forest grow over that path you came there by.

But you will, so...

So hurry up and run to the one that you love.

And blind him with your kindness.

And he'll make war, old war, on who you were before.

And claim all that has spoiled in your heart.

Now, I tell myself I've mended

under these patches of blue sky.

There are still a few holes that let in a little rain.

And it's been crying on my shingles.

My floorboards moan under my feet.

The refrigerator is whining, so I've got reason to complain.

But I am not gonna bless you with such compliments,

some degrading psalm of praise,

like the kind that converted you to me so long ago.

Because the truth is that gossip's as good as gospel in this town.

You can save your face but you won't ever save your soul.

Baby that's a fact.

So hurry up and run to the one that you love.

And tie him up in your likeness,

And he'll become, become the prisoner I was.

And know all that has spoiled in your heart.

And know all that has spoiled in your heart.

So hurry up and run to the one that you love.

And blind him with your kindness.

And he'll make war, old war, on who you were before.

And claim all that has spoiled in your heart.

Yeah, he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.