Thursday
Cross Out The Eyes
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 133211
- xx0231
- x13331
- x32010
- 355333
- x02210
Intro: Drumbeats
Verse 1:
Let's call this the quiet city
Where screams are felt
as a wave of stoplights
Drive through the streets as
gunshots punctuate the night
The sides we take divide
us from our faith
And the morning dove gets
caught in the telephone wire
Asleep you set the fire
in your own house
And the night was
a knife that cut
And I'm para--
Chorus 1:
--lyzed
Cross out the eyes
Blur all the lines
Tearing this canvas
from the wall
We crossed out the eyes
Put lines through these cries
We pulled all the leaves
from the trees that fall
(your trees that fall
your trees that fall
your trees that fall
your trees that fall)
Verse 2:
A silent dance that we
did into this hospital bed
Hear voices from another room
"It happens all the time"
but you leave in the sand
the leaves fallen
counting down days to live
Drain the blood
from this valentine!
"We can rise on the
wings of the dove
See blue skies getting caught
in the trail of all this smoke
We can rise like candles in
the dark-yours always"
and an envelope marked with
your new address
Asleep you set the fire
in your own house
And the night was
a knife that cut
And I'm para--
Chorus 2:
--lyzed
Cross out the eyes
Blur all the lines
Tearing this canvas
from the wall
We crossed out the eyes
Put lines through these cries
We pulled all the leaves
from the trees that fall
Bridge:
(Cross out the eyes!)
(Blur all the lines!)
(Cries!)
(Repeat)
(hold)
Interlude:
your cries!!
Verse 3:
It was the first
time face to face
I'm crossing the line
Talking to the other
side of death
Hearing the words that choke
memories into flatlines
I'm calling your name
hoping for something
to wash these dreams
of you away
Dm Bb Dm Bb Dm Bb C--
(till we die!)
Dm Bb Dm Bb Dm Bb C--
(memories in flatlines!)
Chorus 3:
Cross out the eyes when
you said all these lies
Cross out the eyes when
you said all these lies
Outro:
Fence was blown down in a
winter storm and this field
(cross out the eyes!)
Stretches out of this
world into the sound
( trace of!)
What can we do put a stop to
the coming white days
(In a love song!)
I'm hoping for something to wash
(hold)
these dreams of you away
(Stretches out of this world
Lets drive back the dead
Stretches out of this world
Stretches out of this world)