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[Verse 1]
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You were breaking like the ground beneath me,
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Burn up like a dream,
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I keep off lightning strikes,
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On summer nights,
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On television,
Em
Now,
BmGAm
I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep,
EmBmG
That night I tripped and broke my ribcage,
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On a bar seat,
AmEm
Drunk for weeks,
EmBm
Chasing ambulances,
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Stumble to my bedsheets,
AmEm
Softly drift off after peaceful things,
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I had once and released down in the streets,
Bm
Now here and beyond,
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All footsteps ended at the pond.
[Verse 2]
EmBmG
Don't get why you believed in me so much,
AmEm
To follow and retrieve it all,
BmGAm
That sanctity I scattered so indifferently,
EmBmG
Still you called on me to breathe you out,
AmEm
You begged the breeze relieve,
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Me from what settles deep and,
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Burns down underneath,
Am
If you believe,
Am
My love like a battered dog,
Am
Wanders under street signs,
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Limps out into nothingness,
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Burns up like a bad dream gone.
[Chorus]
Am
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
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Those corners of your dreams,
G
I think you needed me,
CG
To bleed out loud,
GAm
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
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Those corners of your dreams,
Am
I guess you needed me to leave.
[Verse 3]
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Still you carried me to sleep,
Dm
Leaving when the dream retreats,
Dm
Grasping for an older me,
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Some faded image,
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And it carries you to sleep,
AmG
Breathes out in the fog before me,
Em
Cattails hit your knees to send,
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Some subtle promise,
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To scatter all their seeds,
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To grow before they leave,
Dm
For life and all its consequential,
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Complicated scenes,
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That shake you out of sleep,
AmG
Scrape your knees beneath your feet,
Em
I think we bleed because we need to bleed,
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We bleed because we need.
[Bridge]
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I just wanted you to carry on and carry me,
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I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be,
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I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me,
Em
I guess I wanted you to leave,
Am
I guess you needed me to bleed.
[Chorus]
Am
Out loud,
BmGAm
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
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Those corners of your dreams,
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I think you needed me,
CG
To bleed out loud,
GAm
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
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Those corners of your dreams,
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I guess you needed me to leave.
[Outro]
BmGAm
Come and shake me from my sleep,
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Burn up in a bad dream,
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I could believe,
BmGAm
Come and shake me from my sleep,
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Come and help me believe.
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