Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

Give up the ghost

Hold me close

Sing me the song that you love most

The words hang like diamonds with music inside them

Colliding in time with your mouth

Find me alone

Walk me home

Show me a world I've not yet known

The buildings are breathing they cry while they're sleeping

We're hurting their feelings somehow

So send an apology made of technology

Bricks turn to circuits instead

Sing like a microphone, talk like a telephone

Watch like a film in your head

Bleed like a needle

Don’t listen to people, they only say things so that something gets said

Cough like a cigarette

Turn like a tourniquet

Burn like a fire truck, red

Sleep like a pillow and wake like a window

In winter with snow-covered ledge

The birds will return soon to bend round your bedroom

While radios talk to the dead

Will you dream like bed, dream like a bed

(Pause)

Verse 2

(repeat previous chord pattern)

Whisper and speak

Touch my cheek

Show me the smile that makes me weak

Cars crash whenever we kiss everything vanishes

Sweetness is all I feel

Write on my hand

Understand

Breathe in the way only you can

You know that you are both the love note caught in my throat and the hope that it’s real

So end like a funeral send out the usual static release from your lungs

Swallow like medicine I think you’re better that anything under the sun

Oh, life re-mystified

Oh, walking valentine

Oh, unimaginable love

Smoke like a factory, steal my identity

Sell it right back to me now

Break like tradition in need of revision

Transmissions will listen like sound

Think like a memory, warm and Septembery

Endlessly coming unwound

‘Till you find yourself out with the graves in the ground

Tears rolling out of eyes as wet as a cloud

But it’s only the sound of your joy coming down