Pain Is Just a Collapsing
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Guitar shapes are relative to capo 0. Sounding piano chords: F#5 → F#5; C#5 → C#5; A → A; B5 → B5; E → E; C#m → C#m; F#m → F#m; G#m → G#m.
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Verse 1
F#5 · 0:00
C#5 · 0:05
F#5 · 0:11
C#5 · 0:17
Pain is just a F#5collapsing
The shell to C#5understanding
All these words, all F#5these legal terms
And truth still C#5crash-landing
Verse 2
I filed your name in F#5triplicate
The papers all C#5came back
Turns out justice moves in F#5circles
Truth sleeps in C#5the cracks
Chorus 1
Darling, hold F#5this melody
When nothing else holds C#5true
Pain is just the F#5breaking through
To reach me, reaching C#5you
Verse 3
You're learning the F#5names
Of the sky and the moon
You're saying new C#5words
You're almost turning two
Half a world over
F#5 · 1:43
I'm counting the miles
Mapping the C#5distance
Between us and back to a cure
Chorus 2
Darling, hold F#5this melody
When nothing else holds C#5true
Pain is just the F#5breaking through
To reach me, reaching you
C#5 · 2:11
A · 2:17
B5 · 2:20
C#5 · 2:22
Bridge
They Aburied truth in paperwork
Then passed B5it down the hall
C#5But every day I dig it out
No Ematter what it costs
Let the Aactors keep arguing
With B5next week's make-believe
Yeah, F#5home's not some fairy tale
You have a real one here with me
E · 2:55
C#m · 3:00
E · 3:06
C#m · 3:12
Outro
Pain is just a F#mcollapsing
The shell of something C#5true
Darling, if you F#mhear this
I'm G#malways reaching RESTfor you
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