To Be Alive

Intro/Verse |C#m | C#m |E | E | C#m Take your chances Past forgiveness Past the old days drink to new E Drown your sorrows until they learn to swim C#m Start the engine Stop your caring Get your bearings make your move E Until those old deaf ears, oh how they’ll fall on you C#m See, the problem Is the blindness That you carry like a cross and E The solution is the darkness that you’re in C#m Time to focus Time to realise Your heart might be the boss E But your head will stop the sides from caving in A E Now you’re a ghost in this town and still so hard on the eyes C#m A E Saying this is what it is to be alive F# A C#m Guess all the secrets you’re bound to on the inside B Are between you and the night C#m I knew you once and your patience Now its you that knows it all E Hope you’re everything you couldn't wait to be C#m I guess half of somethings better than A whole lot of nothing that may be E But when the lightening comes why stand beneath the trees | C#m | E D# | C#m | E D# | C#m | E | E | E Oh why do I do.. Oh why do I do.. Oh why do I do what I do to you