Life Is Long

B F# C# 2x B F# C# In the fall of my youth B F# C# I try to make it up to you B F# C# Face the masonry with knives B F# C# I try to save my little life B C# But all the time it fails me B F# C# Will my back be shot right through B F# C# From sitting slumped on my right side for all of my life? B F# C# It takes weeks not days to heal now, heal now B F# C# When, when I dig into my skin, the cuts are slow and shimmering B F# The cuts are slow and shimmering B F# C# But decade you rang B F# C# Pulled all the phonebooks out B F# C# Gather and leap again B F# C# B F# It's not the last time that I quit B F# B F# C# I don't want to be sick, I don't want to be sick no more D#m C# F# B This is something that I'm used to C# F# I don't want to be sick no more B F# C# 2x B F# C# Jot a note into the future B F# C# If you're hiding blindly from the truth B F# C# Living lights obstruct the movement of B F# C# Other orbits in your view that orbit all around you A#m B And all the tiny frailties D#m C# I never want to go A#m B But meteorites command me C# F# B In fragments of my foolish mind they send me F# B They send me F# B They send me F# B F# They send me