Car Crash Chords by Hotel Books

[D] _ [A] _ It was problematic at best to [G#] perceive existence [E] through the myopic lens I embedded into myself.
[F#m] My lack of gestures [D] limited the effectiveness of my delivery and all she begged [E] for was deliverance.
Just soft, eloquent passages that provided [D] closure.
Not answers, just [A] closure.
And I somehow [E] fashioned together an array of broken glass that looked enough like a
vase that it would [D] pass and she would find a way to keep her roses watered and alive again.
When [E] deep down I was broken, prized among the lackluster thieves, [D] immune to pain but
pained by immunity, she [A] beckoned me and she [E] lessened me because no other love would accommodate
my blindfold so easily.
[D] _
And I was afraid to change, but I was [E] afraid of not changing.
_ _ I was afraid [D] to change, but I was afraid of not changing.
[E] Then a quick flood of blood infecting my brain.
Dashboard, [D] you dashboard, blank slate.
My narrow lens [E] no longer mattered, no longer weighed in and neither did your fear or your
[Bm]
insecurities or your smile.
Because in three seconds [A] fate circumvented a concrete divider followed by seven seconds
[F#m] of nervous prayer, nervous [A] cursing, nervous something.
As poisonous as the snake it came [E] from, the oppression presented to my God forsaken lies
[Bm] limited me even more.
_ Followed by seven seconds of [A] promising myself if I survived I would stop [E] bargaining.
I would stop pushing off [F#m] effort in exchange for more time.
I would [A] stop neglecting civil, spiritual and [E] personal duties or promises, whichever it
may be, neither seem likely at that point.
[D] Followed by two seconds, the longest two seconds I've ever [E] experienced of lying to myself,
lying to my God and lying to you.
[D]
The words I love you seem so broken and so inaccurate.
The words [E] I promise seem so trite and so distant, but so foolish a passenger caught up in this accident.
Nothing mattered beyond the fact that I was damaged and I was hurting physically.
Yet somehow I found the strength to thank [D] my God I was a survivor.
And that's when I heard the fate of the driver.
[E] _
Three seconds later, closure, not answers, [A] just closure.
Lost in the wreckage as the soul ascended.
[E] I love you.
Lost in the wreckage as the soul ascended.
I [D] love you.
And every day I wish we could trade [E] places.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
Because you were the first person to love me in any real way.
[E]
And now I stand six feet above where you lay.
And [D] if I get one thing right in this life, I pray that it'll be sharing [E] love with everybody.
_ The same love that you share [A] with me.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ You come out [E] here.
I hear your voice.
It's such a [F#m] good sound.
_ And my heart breaks.
[E]
And I pray to God you still [A] are alive. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _
[D] _ And I taught myself [A] how to forget [B] that _ [A] sometimes [D] life will try to convince you _ _ there's a such
[A] thing as regret.
_ _ [B] _ But [A] I found it to [D] be a lie.
The same lie I found when I looked in [A] your eyes _ after it was said and done.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F#m] Scream!
_ _ _ [A] Hallelujah!
_ _ _ Until you cough up blood.
The devil came for our [E]
hearts.
But he left without [D] a hope.
_ _ _ Scream _ [A]
hallelujah!
_ _ Until you cough up blood.
I inhaled this world for someone.
[E] _
_ And I tore out my [D]
life. _ _ _ _ _ _ _