Am G Am E Am

                                 Am
The flowers by your bed are wilting.
                              E
The sun is setting in the west.
                           E
A fog is covering your eyes,
                                   E
Your stockings are attracting flies,
                         Am         E         Am
Decay is nibbling at the boards on which you rest.

                                   Am
There's someone waiting at your window,
                        Dm
Familiar face without a name.
                                    E
One night he'll creep in like the mist,
                                E
To touch your forehead with a kiss,
                           Am         E           Am
And lead you back into the void from whence you came.

[Chorus]
                   F    E                       Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
         F                E         Am
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
                   F     E                 Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm         Am              E           Am   E  Am
    And we dance while the sky crashes down.

Am                                Am   
Like that the earth begins to quiver,
Am                         E
And all the oceans turn to black.
                       E
A ship of maniacs with knives,
                                  E
Are playing Blackjack with their lives,
                           Am    E       Am
To kill the time until the giant rats attack.

                         Am
It's raining leprosy and acid.
                              Dm
The saints were taken out and shot.
                            E
When someone proffers you a pear,
                          E
You sink your teeth in unaware,
                                Am          E  Am
That just beneath the skin lies pestilence and rot.

[Chorus]
                   F    E                       Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
         F                E         Am      E     Am
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
                   F     E                 Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm         Am              E            Am   E  Am
    And we dance while the sky crashes down.

[Bridge]
Am Dm E E Am E Am
Am Dm E Am A7

Dm           Am            E            Am
All that now breathes, and all that you love,
Dm          Am                   E               E
All that we weave, will find its way back to the dust.

                       Am
A band of skeletons is playing,
                                  E
Don't act like you don't know the tune.
                           E
Your part is echoed in the path,
                           E
Of every dead leaf blowing past,
                       Am            E    Am
Against a counterpoint reflected off the moon.

                           Am
There is a banquet at the table,
                          Dm
Exotic cheeses wines and cakes.
                       E
And every one of us is damned,
                   E
Until we start to understand,
                        Am                E   Am
That living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes.

[Chorus]
                   F    E                       Am
We've all begun to die, and don't know what to do.
         F                E         Am      E    Am
Since it hurts to pray to God, when God is dying too.
                    F     E                 Am
Takes strength to laugh, when you start to drown.
Dm         Am              E            Am   E  Am
    And we dance while the sky crashes down.

                     F     E                Am
When the stakes are high, best to play the clown.
Dm            Am              C           F      G    Am
       And we dance while the sky crashes down.