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[Intro] F#5 Reading about Buddhism Ab5 And listening to Xasthur A5 On the subway B5 in New York City C#m A Back when you were my home F#m Not that long ago [Section 1] A This (This churning) Abm Life (Of avalanches) Upends me C#m7 Again and again (It spins) A Abm Each night (Each day plummets into night) C#m Now my mind in the dark B Brings it all roaring back [Section 2] A That you could not bear Abm (Can I bear the un-) me (-certainty) That arrives on the wind that came C#m In through the door? A That I can not hold Abm (Holding) you (in my mind) C#m. B Our devotions mismatched (Waking up surprised With no one around C#m A And wondering whooooo?) [Section 3] F#m We could have bridged the gap C#m A But it yawned and swallowed F#m This world of ours B That's now yours and mine (That's now mine and yours) [Section 4] A Abm (This) This life bulldozed (life) C#m By ridiculous sensitivities (Clinging to rocks in wind) Seeing your face everywhere A And there's no escape (Seeing this lost chance) Abm Except what if we could go further in? C#m We were each others' reward B A Abm For enduring the waves [Section 5] C#m ("The wages of dying is love") B (Like the poem says) A Abm As long as the one last C#m Leap into the dark B Is wholehearted A It almost was