Thursday – Porcelain (Guitar)

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Waiting 1999 Submitted by: [email protected] Key: C, F Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: Am - x02210 C - x32010 Dm - xx0231 Bb - x13331 D - xx0232 Intro: Dm-- x8 Verse 1:
Am       C     Dm
  City of blue tile

Am       C    Dm
  Figure in Ceramics

Am      C        Dm
  Where we reach out

Am         C
  Grab for Porce-
Chorus 1:
 Dm       Am  Bb         Dm
-lain But it's too fragile to hold

       Am       Bb     Dm
And it shatters in our hands

            Am
In time the seasons will 

Bb         Dm
seal these shards

          Am
Into the slits that 

  Bb        Dm
denote your wrists

             Bb
Death is the answer

        Am
To calculations composed

   Bb                   Dm
of motions that are the same

                  Bb
And secret and different

          Am
A missing alphabet 

       Bb
with a message for us
Verse 2:
     Dm
When people die
(DIE,DIE!)
            Am
They take a piece 

   C       Dm
of us with them
(PEOPLE DIE AND DIE!)
             Am
And holes in clouds 

    Bb      Dm
are minutes passing
(DIE AND DIE!)
             Am
Rescind this line

    C       Dm
and several ties
(PEOPLE DIE AND DIE EVERYDAY!)
              Am
The skyline unfolds 

     C
into expla-
Chorus 2:
   Dm
-nation That sometimes 

Bb
words give up

    Am
And silently walk off the 

Bb
edge the edge of the page

    Dm                 Bb
And here the cry opens up 

            Am
reveals the word inside

    Bb                Dm
The crack in the porcelain

    Bb              Am
The crack in the porcelain

    Bb                Dm(hold)
The crack in the porcelain
Interlude: Bb--Dm-- Bridge:
    Bb
The silent line of

 Dm
skylit eyes show

    Bb
The silent line of

 Dm
skylit eyes show

    Bb
The silent line of

 Dm
skylit eyes show

    Bb
The silent line of

 Dm
skylit eyes show
(Repeat)
D--
Sing in Backup: Death up there shine more brightly than lives down here Try and live (Repeat Verse 2) Outro:
 Dm    Bb
-nation

       Dm  Bb
explanation

        Bb
Try and live

        Dm
Try and live

        Bb
Try and live

        Bb
Try and live

        Dm
Try and live

        Bb
Try and live

        Bb
Try and live

        Dm
Try and live
Bb Dm---(hold) Try and live, live Try and live Try and live