Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

A (CLAP CLAP CLAP!)

Verse 1

When the baby's born

Oh, let's turn it to the snow

So that ice will surely grow

Over weak and brittle bones

Oh, let's leave it to the wolves

So their teeth turn it to food

Oh, its flesh keeps them alive

Oh, its death helps them survive

Oh, the world can be kind in its own way

(repeat the chord progression for verse 1 instrumentally before going into verse 2)

Verse 2

Oh well your future's a machine

With the mechanics of a dream

It is your mind that spins the wheel

And your heart that makes you feel

All the guilt for all your sins

Oh and as that wheel spins

Oh well it plays as they believed

And for your husband you have grieved

Oh the world still deceives you as it turns

(no instrumental break, cut straight to the next part)

Well in my lucid moments I could see

Oh that the heart might be the weakest part of me

Oh and the moon controls the movements of the tide

Oh but it has no weight on the movements of my mind

(This next part is acapella until the next chord is brought up. This section is supposed

be suspenseful so I would implore you to improvise with what you have around you as

through this section, and have your friends or audience sing it with you)

But if you turn your hands into flames

All their light will burn the same

Whether you just pass it through

or if it's what you want to do

And your sense of culpability

Is from the guides that you perceive

Will show you grace

Oh when you turn to a ghost

Oh but now the love you found

Is raising you from muddy ground

And oh the death will let you down

'Cause your curse

Will go on the same