Intro 2x: Bb F C  Dm Bb C Am Dm

Bb                                       C G Am
   When I came down the dawn poured into me
Bb                                       C G Am
   I shook 'em up, the walls came crumbling
Bb                                              C G Am
   My thin skin trembling with these salty wounds
Bb                                       C G Am
   My stolen gold inside the emperors tomb
Bb                                     C G Am
   Now painting rainbows on my ugly face
Bb                                             C G Am
   I built this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace
Bb                                       C G Am
   But I ascend and serve my feverish need
Bb                                    C G Am
   Within the confines of such chemistry

F              Bb
It's the way I see
               Dm
Everything I need
               C
It's the way to be

Bb              F
Let this be our little secret
C               Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
Bb         Dm
Higher and higher and higher
      Bb               F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C           Dm
up and up I keep on climbing
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
C          Dm
Higher and higher and higher

( Bb F Am Dm Bb F Am Dm Gm9 Am7 Bb )

Bb                                    C G Am
   My face blew up at such a casual sight
Bb                                      C G Am
   The smattered colors of ecstatic fright
Bb                           C G Am
   The rush above me to oblivion
Bb                                  C G Am
   Outlining wet sidewalks with halogen
Bb                                     C G Am
   Oh have you ever felt so goddamned strong?
Bb                                         C G Am
   How come it takes some people so damn long
Bb                                          C G Am
   He turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain
Bb                                         C G Am
   The citrus drawing out the scene it stains

F               Bb
Watch the basin drain
                   Dm
As your life lines wane
               C
And you cant explain
                Bb
As your friends complain
F                      Bb
You've caused all this pain
                Dm
And you proudly shame
                    C
Your whole family's name

Bb              F
Let this be our little secret
C               Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
Bb         Dm
Higher and higher and higher
      Bb               F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C           Dm
up and up I keep on climbing
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
C          Dm
Higher and higher and higher

Bb                                 F
Mother I can tell what you've been thinking
               C
staring at the stars on your ceiling
C                                             Dm
Thinking once there was a power that you were wielding
                     C
And now I've hit the mark
                Am
Stabbing at the dark
                       Dm               C             Bb
And I cannot help but ignore the people staring at my scars

Bb              F
Let this be our little secret
C               Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
Bb         Dm
Higher and higher and higher
      Bb               F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C           Dm
up and up I keep on climbing
Bb         F
Higher and higher and higher
C          Dm
Higher and higher and higher