Lost One's Weeping

Chords

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Em                             G

Feel it cutting into me, the doubting, painful knife
        C                          D

Feel it deepening the rift finally hit just right
         Em                               G

Couldn't take the love I had, so weak and burning low
       Em                      D                  Em

But it grew into a weapon only hurting me, this I know...

     G

It's nonfiction...

   Em                          G

So good with numbers, science, math I like
        C                      D

But I'm terrible at English so I despise
     Em                             G

This part of me that wants a simple right or wrong
      Em                                 G          D

But I feel that everything I choose will always be false

    Em          G         C           D

And today, this homework, about me, a blank sheet.
Em            G             C           D

Accomplished, content with, this life I will now live
      Em       G           C               D

'Till I think, why are we, just sometimes, no always
Em                       D

Saying how we're sad and saying how we're lonely?

        C                                D

Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?
        Em                                 Bm

Can you even read his mind, see that kid's lost fantasy?
        C                              D

Can you even find the one who died his red heart to black?
Em

Hey who could it be?
Bm

Hey someone tell me!

        C                                 D

Can you even solve the question with your abacus yet?
        Em                              Bm

Can you even stop the rope from hanging him by his neck?
       C                                   D

Did we really choose it right saying we're okay this way?
Em

Hey just tell me how,
     Bm         D          Em

It's not like I care now!

[Instrumental]

Em,G,C,D x2


         Em                      Bm

Spending days like numbers, they all pass their prime
    C                  D

And again hypnotically swimming through time
Em         G         Bm                 C
Behind the power and guards I put up, I hide
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Knowing they have long died

Em              G             C                D

My problems, my resolve, just can't solve that homework
Em            G                 C                D

Accomplished, content with this life I will know live
      Em           G           C     D

'Till I speak, and he says the demon inside us
         Em          G

Saying, "Let me just leave,"
         D       Bm

Saying, "Someone kill me!"

        C                                D

Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?
        Em                                 Bm

Can you even read his mind, see that kid's lost fantasy?
        C                              D

Can you even find the one who died his red heart to black?
Em

Hey who could it be?
Bm

Hey someone tell me!

        C                                 D

Can you even solve the question with your abacus yet?
        Em                              Bm

Can you even stop the rope from hanging him by his neck?
       C                                   D

Did we really choose it right saying we're okay this way?
Em

Hey just tell me how,
D

Hey just tell me how!

        C                       D

Can you even say the formula of area now?
        Em                                     Bm

Can you even scream the dreams you swore would never go out?
    Em                                 G

Who was the one that let my hopes just curl up and die?
D

Hey who could it be?
Bm

No, it's gotta be!

     C                                D      

Just open up your eyes, why don't you grow up and see?
            Em                              Bm

Oh what the hell is growing up? And tell me when will I be?
      C                            D

Can a single person out there just explain it to me?
    Em

Hey just tell me how,
     Bm         D          Em

It's not like I care now!!

[Instumental]

Em, G, C, D x4