G										  Em
out in the school yard, building a tomb for the beautiful skeleton asleep in your parents' room.
	G							            Em
and you couldn't find anyone to talk to so your heart was broken and nobody knew
	  D
until the doctors opened you and what they found
	C
was the two halves beating separately and orbiting around
     D
your body with energy that sprung forth from the ground.
     C                                         G
your body's made of energy that comes from the ground.

Em

G                                                                                     Em
there's a black bird sitting on your bones, perched above your rib cage whistling the tones
     G
of a sad organ pumping the only way it knows,
                                                       Em
like the sound of ghosts thumping when the winter wind blows
          D       
all those voices coming quickly and rocketing around
   C
to make your madness silky soft and white as down.
           D
with their cedar-scented sadness and dressing gowns,
        C                                                             G
they'll dry your cheeks with the torn sleeves of their faded dressing gowns.

Em
and how your love is like a vulture.
G
and now it's circling around and it makes the sweetest sound,
           Em
"i will be wanted. i will be wanted."
D
and it feeds off what is dead.
         C
how your love is like a vulture

it feeds off what is dead.
    D
and now it's circling around your head,
         C
how your love is like a vulture,

it feeds off what is dead.
          G                 Em
i will be honest. i will be honest.

         G
i've not forgotten what i said, come and find me when you're dead.
            Em                   D
my heart is haunted. my heart is haunted
       G                                                           Em
'cause now you're hanging around, now you're hanging around in the hereafter.
D                          C
happily ever after this, i said your name and blew a kiss.
    D                                    C                   G
goodnight my love, remember this, you'll always be the one i miss.

D C G

G
broken into shards just out of the womb,
                                                 Em
i watched as your scars grew from the ground and bloomed.