Counting Cards

  Am
Picture me counting cards, dear

Pick any kind you like
 G
Picture them colored red, dear

Black will hold back the light
           F
From the stars in our eyes are just diamonds, broke
 Am
Jokes we tell to laugh, dear

Laugh to hold back the pain
   G
Pain is in the mind, dear

Stars are much the same
 F
Gone in the time it takes the light to reach
    Dm
In time you'll find
        G           F                  Am
We're blind to the things we don't believe


[Verse 2]
    Am
Picture us out in Vegas counting bills before the show
    G
Spendin' em from New Orleans where we spent the week before
          F
And the stars in our eyes are the lights from the flash
    Am
Pictures of us in black, dear
   G
Rolling on the red carpets laid on concrete

Counting billboards where we read
           F
That the stars of our minds shine bright in the dark
        Dm         G
Like diamonds, diamonds


[Pre-Chorus]
     Am                          G
And hearts in our cards and our silver strung guitars
      F
Say hear me when I call
  Dm                     Am
Hear me when I come in late

You're wide awake
       G            F
"I'm sorry" is not enough
                    Dm
I'm sorry I'm not enough to stay


[Chorus]
   Am    G
Faded by

In time with the back of your bed
  F                 Dm
Am I that levy you take, that levy you hold
    F           G
Faded by in time

With the back of your bed
  F                   Dm
Am I that levy you break, that levy you hold


[Bridge]
      Am
Paint me red, paint me red

Picture that, picture that
G
Picture us and God shaking hands just because we can
      F
Like DMC we run this shit, Run DMC

What's tricky to get we got
  Dm*
Watch me murder this
    Dm*
Watch me murder this


[Bridge]
Am G F Dm   2x


[Verse 3]
   Am
Planes fly due west, and
   G                      F                          Dm
Plain in my view is the blame for the fault in our stars
                        Am
Counting cards in the dark
                    G
We sit and talk, bleeding it out
                        F                Dm
Believing that all our cries are just diamonds


[Pre-Chorus]
   Am                         G
Hearts in our cards and our silver strung guitars
     F
Say hear me when I call
  Dm                      Am
Hear me when I come in late
                G
You're wide awake
                      F
"I'm sorry" is not enough
                    Dm
I'm sorry I'm not enough to stay


[Chorus]
 Am      G
Faded by in time

With the back of your bed
    F               Dm
Am I that levy you take, that levy you hold
   Am         G
Faded by in time

With the back of your bed
  F                   Dm
Aam I that levy you break, that levy you hold
  Am       G
Faded by in time

With the back of your bed
  F                   Dm
Am I that levy you take, that levy you hold


[Outro]
    Am
Picture me counting cards, dear, picture me counting cards