Blood Ballet

E A Say it's not so E2 D# C#sus4 B A Say your heart it wrote me letters all the time E E3 D# C#sus4 B D Say it sealed them up and with your breath did sign E Them all away E A Say that your notes E2 D# C#sus4 B A They were no forgery, you meant them every line E E2 D# C#sus4 B A Some in meter, some in verse, and some in rhyme E Tell me you meant every word B A You could cut my knees and leave me at the door B A I'd still pick all your memories off our dusty floor B A If you'd stay B A If you'd stay E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while E A Tell me how you are E2 D# C#sus4 B A And I'll write a song for every feeling I can't name E E2 D# C#sus4 B A Like we were dancing in a fucking blood ballet E It was a massacre B How'd you get away? A B A 'Cause oh, good heavens we abided by the night B A But there are darker things than the absence of light B A And they still creak through our halls B A I would build a city out of you and me B A There would be crime, but still a local grocery B A If you'd stay B A If you'd stay E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while E3 D# C#sus4 B A E Darling, just a little while