The Silence Cifras

Recurring Guitar/Piano riff played throughout
eb|-0--3-2---3-2-0----0-----|
Bb|-------3-------2-3--0----|
Gb|-------------------------|
Db|-------------------------|
Ab|-------------------------|
Eb|-------------------------|
 
Guitar Riff in Em, played occasionally
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Bb|---------------|
Gb|---------------|
Db|-2-2-2-2-0-----|
Ab|----------2----|
Eb|---------------|
 
[Intro]
Em D A Em x2
 
[Verse]
Em                   D          A                 Em
Why do I deserve the silence to feel better about you?
Em                  D
At a loss I lost my cool
A                     Em
I denied that I found you
Em                     D
I tried to be a basket case
A                  Em
I did not surprise you
Em                          D
I'm trying to find a signal fire
A                         Em
Let me know when I should move
 
[Chorus]
G                         D
But you, amplified in the silence
                 A               Em
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Em               D
Magnified in the silence
A            Em
Anatomically proved
G              A    Em
That you don't need me
 
Em D A Em x2
 
 
[Verse]
Em                  D
Why do I desire the space?
A                    Em
I was mourning after you
Em                     D
I was lost and lost my shape
A                         Em
There was nothing I could do
Em                    D
I don't want to waste away
A                    Em
It was all I gave to you
Em                       D
Take me back and take my place
A                        Em
I will rise right up for you
 
[Chorus]
G                         D
But you, amplified in the silence
                 A               Em
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Em               D
Magnified in the silence
A            Em
Anatomically proved
G              A    Em
That you don't need me
 
[Bridge]
Em                       A
All the while you waste away, you're asking
D                                         G    F#m  Em
"Did I really need another one to take me down?"
Em                                             A
Everybody knows it's something that you had to live with darling
D                       G    F#m  Em
Nobody's gonna tear you down now
Em                         A
There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection
 
Em D A Em x2
 
[Outro ]
Em
There was nothing but quiet retractions
D                                                   A
And families pleading, "Don't look in that cabinet, there's far more bad than there's good,
                        Em
I don't know how it got there"
Em
That was something your father had burned in me
D
Twenty hours out of Homestake eternity
A                                               Em
"You can go anywhere but you are where you came from"
Em
Little girl you are cursed by my ancestry
D
There is nothing but darkness and agony
A                                           Em
I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking
Em
Let me watch you as close as a memory
D
Let me hold you above all the misery
A                                          Em
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here
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