Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Key: C#m Chorus: C#m E You could run a thousand roads A C#m B And never end up nowhere C#m B E Pierce through your hands a thousand holes A C#m B And never know the cross you bear Verse: A E B Maybe I was born inside a shadow A E B I'm always starving for the light A E C#m B A The only roads I seem to follow E B Are the ones, leading to the night
Chorus: C#m E You can dig a thousand graves A C#m B You're never gonna bury that ghost C#m B E Floats up from the ground and It calls your name A C#m B Hangs in your hair like a Jesus stone Verse: A E B Crashing down too far from heaven A E B Fell too short of a million things A E C#m B A Try to put the pieces back together E B It's what I get, flight on broken wings Interlude: C#m E B A C#m E A B Chorus: C#m E Sick of dying in these nights A C#m B I wanna feel alive in the world C#m B E Wanna straighten out all my crooked lines A C#m B And then I'm gonna marry that girl Verse: A E B Cause I believe that love can save me A E B When it comes in quiet and it rises slow A E C#m B A Takes the depths out of the darkness E B So you don't have to fall that far alone A E B So you don't have to face it on your own Outro: C#m E B A C#m E A B