Cm
Close your eyes to the world that you see
F Fm
And open wide to the one in your dreams
Cm
There’s nothing left that you wanna believe
F Fm
Foreign eyes have been torn at the seams
Cm
You’d save yourself from a world without sin
F Fm
You're born again with a means to an end
Cm
Drawing lines in the palm of your hand
F Fm
Your holding on to all that you’ve planned
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Cm
There’s nothing here that is left to be saved
F Fm
Take a bow to the warrior state
Cm
You throw yourself to the perilous static
F Fm
You shut your eyes but the death is romantic
Cm
You’ve sold your soul but it’s only a fake
F Fm
You’d kill yourself for a piece of the take
Cm
You lose your mind in a world that leaves nothin’
F Fm
You're holding on for asylum, reaching for air
Bb
It’s all you want, you know you’ll never forget
Cm Ab F
Your open arms, they only seem to surrender
Bb
It’s all you know, you know you’ll never regret
Cm Ab F
Your open arms, they only seem to surrender all that matters
(Verse/chorus chords repeated)
No one needs what they think to survive
Pulled inside with an appetite blind
You feast your eyes on American sex
You sleep in shores of American bliss
Growing wings from the sorrowless excess
Your frozen eyes cut the chord to their last depth
You share your young with the wolves of a nation
There’s nothing left ‘til you pray for salvation
It’s all you want, you know you’ll never forget
Your open arms, they only seem to surrender all that matters
It’s all you know, you know you’ll never regret
Your open arms, they only seem to surrender all that matters
