F                            C
Footsteps through the hollow sound
         G                      Dm
Like the wind blew through the south cold
F                           C
Hadn't looked down, feared something
            G                   Dm
Beneath the old me, without any time
   F                          C
We all drifted out from these shores
        G                             Dm
Finding photographs and loveletters in bottles battered, worn
F                         C
Shallow saltwater singing sore
               G         Dm
You may not be mine
F                               C
Friends they were shopping next door
         G                         Dm
Spending money on things that they couldn't afford
F                             C
Tide pulls too deep for me to hold
         G                     Dm
Standing still, still changing tide

F (1/4 Bar)

[Chorus]
     Am         E
Stay open, stay open
   C     E   F
To catch my fault
       Am
What a shame that
        E
I would splinter you
   C       E     F
Or hinder you at all
      Am               E
Won't give my love for free
      C       E        F
Won't give my love for free
        Fm                        C E F
Oh, but please, take it from me


[Verse 2]
F                        C
Trying to send my bitter rhyme
        G                               Dm
But outside from your jokes I'm left to die cold
        F                C
It is a long drive in my thoughts
G                  Dm
Dance slow behind
F                             C
Show me that you dried in the sand
              G                         Dm
Your favorite book with no pages, I'm a shell of a man
    F                         C
I'm fumbling with two sets of keys
                       G       Dm
But I'm setting 'em down
F                    C
Words crawl under my skin
         G                           Dm
Like the wind from the north of your hair
 F                       C
Last fall we buried dead plans
            G          Dm
Choke dying plans
F                        C
Last fall we buried dead plans
            G         Dm
Choke dying plans

F (1/4 bar)

[Chorus]
     Am         E
Stay open, stay open
   C     E       F
To catch my fault
       Am
What a shame that
        E
I would splinter you
   C      E         F
Or hinder you at all
      Am               E
Won't give my love for free
      C    E           F
Won't give my love for free
        Fm                       C E F (X4)
Oh, but please, take it from me


[Outro]
C     Em               F
Oh my god is falling in pieces
C     Em                     Am    Dm
Oh my god this is falling apart
C     Em                  F
Oh my god is being turned over
C     Em                     Am     Dm
Oh my god, this is out of my hand
     Am         E
Stay open, stay open (oh my god, falling to pieces)
   C     E  F
To catch my fault
       Am
What a shame that (oh my god, falling apart)
        E
I would splinter you
   C      E      F
Or hinder you at all
      Am               E
Won't give my love for free (Oh my god , turning it over)
      C    E           F
Won't give my love for free
       Fm                        C E F (X4)
Oh but please, take it from me