Dust And Ashes Chords

Gm  D7#5  Gm  D7#5
 
[Verse 1]
              Gm
Is this how I die?
D7#5
Ridiculed and laughed at,
        Gm           D7#5
Wearing clown shoes
              Gm
Is this how I die?
D7#5
Furious and reckless,
          Gm     D7#5
Sick with booze
          Cm7/G  Eb6
How did I live?
        F7/Eb
I taste every wasted minute
      Bb/D   Bb7     Eb    Cm
Every time I turned away
                                Ebm6
From the things that might have healed me
                     Bbmaj7/D   Eb
How long have I been sleeping?
 
 
[Verse 2]
              Gm
Is this how I die?
D7#5
Frightened like a child
         Gm     D7#5
Lazy and numb
              Cm7
Is this how I die?
   Ebmmaj7        Ebm6
Pretending and preposterous
    Gm
And dumb
          Eb
How did I live?
      F7/Eb
Was I kind enough and good enough?
      Bb/D Bb7  Eb
Did I lo-o-ove enough?
Cm
   Did I ever look up
            Ebm6
And see the moon
                       Bb/F
And the stars, and the sky?
   Ebm/Gb          Bb         Bb7
Oh why have I been sleeping?
 
 
[Chorus]
     Eb          D7
They say we are asleep
         Gm7     Fm7
Until we fall in love
       Eb6         D7       Gm     Fm7
We are children of dust and ashes
    Cm                           F7
But when we fall in love we wake up
    D7/F#    Gm       Eb     Bb
And we are a God, and angels weep
Ebmaj9                      Bb
       But if I die here tonight
  F7        Bb     D7
I die in my sleep
 
 
[Bridge]
Gm        Edim/G       F#dim/A       Gm/A
All of my life I spent searching the words
   D7/Bb     Bb+        C            D/C
Of poets and saints and prophets and kings
    Gm         Edim/G    F#dim/A        Gm/A
And now at the end all I know that I’ve learned
        D7/Bb      Bb+       C            D/C
Is that all that I know is I don’t know a thing
   Eb            Bb
So easy to close off
          D7       Gm
Place the blame outside
Eb           Bb
Hiding in my room at night,
   D7   Gm
So terrified
Gm               D7/F#
All the things I could have been
      Ab/Eb         Eb
But I never had the nerve
D7       Gm
Life and love
  F     F7 Bb    G7/B
I don’t de-serve
 
       Cm         G7
So all right, all right,
     Ab     Eb
I’ve had my time
D7       Gm
Close my eyes,
Cm/Eb   F     F7    Bb    G7/B
Let the death bells chime
Cm         G7
Bury me in burgundy
  Ab         Eb
I just don’t care
D7        Gm
Nothing’s left
Cm/Eb       F  F7 Bb
I've looked every-where
 
 
[Verse 3]
Gm
Is this how I die?
          D7#5                             Gm   D7#5
Was there ever any other way my life could be?
              Cm7
Is this how I die?
       Ebmmaj7             Gm
Such a storm of feelings inside of me?
                  Eb
But then why am I screaming?
         F7/En
Why am I shaking?
   Bb/D           Bb7              Eb
Oh God, was there something that I missed?
Cm7                     Ebmmaj7
    Did I squander my divinity?
    Bb/F          D7#5/F#
Was happiness within me the whole time?
 
 
[Chorus]
     Eb          D7
They say we are asleep
         Gm7     Fm7
Until we fall in love
       Eb6         D7       Gm     Fm7
We are children of dust and ashes
    Cm                           F7
But when we fall in love we wake up
    D7/F#    Gm       Eb     Bb
And we are a God, and angels weep
Ebmaj9                      Bb
       But if I die here tonight
  F7        Bb     D7
I die in my sleep
     Eb          D7
They say we are asleep
         Gm7     Bb7
Until we fall in love
N.C.       Eb            Ebmmaj7
And I'm so ready to wake up now
 
[Coda]
               Bb/D   Ebm6
I want to wake up
Bb/F             Ebm/Gb
    Don’t let me die while I’m like this
Bb/D  Ebm6  Bb/F  Ebm/G
               Bb/D  Ebm6
I want to wake up
  Bb/F           Ebm/Gb             Bb/D  Ebm6
God don’t let me die while I’m like this
Bb/F  Ebm/Gb
                   Bb/D    Ebm6
Please let me wake up now
  Bb/F           Ebm/Gb             Bb/D  Eb6
God don’t let me die while I’m like this
Bb/F  Ebm/Gb
    Bb/D   Ebm6
I’m ready
Bb/F   Ebm/Gb
    D7#5/Ab  Ebm/Bb
I’m ready
 
Ebm/C   Bb/D   B7
B7  B7
 
N.C.    Bb  Ebm6
To wake up
 
Bb  Ebm6/C  Bb
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