D
The orderlies shuffle
        G
across black and white marble
         D
They're bustling reminders that
                          G
no one can slow down the days
     D
The white coats and black boards
         G
they conspire behind locked doors
      D
They don't want to tell you how long
                  G
until it eats me away
   D
I wish you would wake me
          G
when I'm violently shaking
D
Tossing and turning through dreams
                   G
where I die giving up
   D
I wish it had been you
          G
that I'd given my heart to
    D
Instead of just wasting these moments
              G
by biting my tongue

[Chorus]

     Bm                A
And I've been having dreams
    G                 D
of black and white infirmaries
          Bm
With the palest walls
      A               G
that always stand in silence
       Bm                    A
If I thought that you could hear
     G               D
I'd whisper in your ear
         Bm
All the things I couldn't
A               G
come around to writing

[Interlude]

D G (x2)

[Verse]

           D
I've been constantly stepping
            G
with these unwanted weapons
           D
Like the things that I think
                              G
and I feel will destroy everything
    D
So I'll hold a flame to
     G
the things I won't tell you
     D
And sift through the ashes
                            G
for some kind of reason to sing

[Chorus]

     Bm                A
And I've been having dreams
    G                 D
of black and white infirmaries
          Bm
With the palest walls
      A               G
that always stand in silence
       Bm                    A
If I thought that you could hear
     G               D
I'd whisper in your ear
         Bm
All the things I couldn't
A               G
come around to writing

[Interlude]

D A G (x2)

[Outro]

          D
And I'll bleed right out
          A                    G
of these wounds that I gave myself
          D
And I'll live out
               A                  G
live out this life with nobody's help
          D
And I'll bleed right out
          A                    G
of these wounds that I gave myself
          D
And I'll live out
               A                  G
live out this life with nobody's help