intro riff: the intro and verse part where ben slides up the guitar are easy to play its an E chord, and then slide it up so your pointer finger is on the sixth fret, and other two are on the seventh. Intro: Life will tower (??) a quarter scale, of precious oxygen we never inhale, i cracked a bottle against the safety rail, give me time and you were like a walking compliment, tall in stature and exceptionally well read, adobe glasses and a cartigan, oh come on and oh so empty were the faces of the dealers and the waitresses around you said that all these things you've learned to ignore, hidden cameras on the casino floor and what gets payed for behind hotel doors, oh come on and pretend every slot machine is a robot amputee waving hello people stare into their eyes and they feed them little prizes, in they go and entering the twilight, the basement where the sun had never spilt, you said that were lonely, then we kissed like lonely people do you said the city has a beating heart, that pushes people down the boulevard and they're all hoping for a wishful fill, in the desert full of dollar bills and foolishly you know they pay me still, oh come on and oh so empty were the faces of the dealers and the waitresses around and oh so empty were the faces of the dealers and the waitresses around