Only Sleep Cifras

[Intro]
 
Bb F Gm Ab
Bb F Gm Eb
 
[Verse 1]
 
Bb                                      F
When darkness drowns your bleeding heart
F                                Gm
And tyrants tear your world apart
                              Ab
And none of it is making sense
                              Bb
It's all mistakes or accidents
                                F
We're all just players in a game
                                     Gm
The strings are never pulled the same
                                     Eb
And I have to make a change right now
                          Bb
But nothing changes anyhow
                           F
Or any ways to change today
                              Gm
Seems fucking pointless anyway
                            Eb
And sympathy it runs so deep
 
And I can't even fall asleep
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb Cm Ab [x2]
 
[Verse 2]
 
Bb                       F
I'd be abysmal to presume
                               Gm
Solutions to stave off our doom
                                  Ab
Yes, I mean our sudden soon to end
                                       Bb
Through all these fading times we spend
                                        F
And when I think away on things I pissed
                                Gm
I'd ask to be writ off your list
                                 Eb
No social skills no special price
                           Bb
I can only try to empathize
                             F
Good memories held in my hand
                                      Gm
Through finger cracks they fall like sand
                             Ab
If only there were some to keep
                                    Bb
I'd have to trade them all for sleep
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb Cm Ab [x2]
 
[Verse 3]
 
Bb                                F
And losing sleep adds so much time
                                  Gm
The days can drag my bleeding mind
                            Ab
Into a state of jagged shock
                                     Bb
That twists and winds but never stops
                               F
And dreams are memories as well
                                    Gm
And some of them read just like hell
                              Eb
If you could be my only friend
                                 Bb
I'd cherish all the time we spend
                                F
And though we're so infrequent now
                               Gm
Our hearts dance somewhere anyhow
                               Ab
So many make our lives seem cheap
                                Bb
And in the end we all must sleep
 
[Bridge]
 
Bb Cm Ab [x2]
Cm Db Ab Bb [x4]
 
[Verse 4]
 
Bb                              F
And endless flaming turning fire
                                 Gm
The setting sun that rises higher
                                   Ab
The beautiful bright blinding light
                                 Bb
That never quite turns into night
                                  F
Our hearts can fly up freely there
                                       Gm
Our minds can breathe such precious air
                                   Eb
To all my fine fair weather friends
                               Bb
Good tidings are all I can send
                                   F
I forgive you though you never knew
                                 Gm
Just what it was you put me through
                             Ab
And to all my enemies the same
                                    Bb
Your obsessions kept me in this game
                                   F
And according to this life I've led
                                    Gm
I should have lost more than my head
                                   Eb
And on the edge that tilts so steep
                      Bb
I dream awake only of sleep
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