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Am  Em  Bm  G
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[Verse 1]
Em                Bm       G
You were breaking like the ground beneath me,
Am             Em
Burn up like a dream,
                     Bm
I keep off lightning strikes,
   G
On summer nights,
      Am
On television,
Em
Now,
             Bm    G              Am
I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep,
Em                       Bm       G
That night I tripped and broke my ribcage,
G
On a bar seat,
Am        Em
Drunk for weeks,
Em                 Bm
Chasing ambulances,
G
Stumble to my bedsheets,
Am      Em
Softly drift off after peaceful things,
D Gadd2                             Am
I had once and released down in the streets,
                Bm
Now here and beyond,
                           Em   G  Em  G  Gadd2  G
All footsteps ended at the pond.


[Verse 2]
Em                         Bm       G
Don't get why you believed in me so much,
   Am            Em
To follow and retrieve it all,
    Bm          G                    Am
That sanctity I scattered so indifferently,
Em                     Bm             G
Still you called on me to breathe you out,
               Am       Em
You begged the breeze relieve,
                          D/F#
Me from what settles deep and,
G               Gadd2
Burns down underneath,
Am
If you believe,
Am
My love like a battered dog,
Am
Wanders under street signs,
Am             Bm
Limps out into nothingness,
                Am        G
Burns up like a bad dream gone.


[Chorus]
                        Am
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
                      G
Those corners of your dreams,
G
I think you needed me,
   C           G
To bleed out loud,
G                       Am
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
                      F
Those corners of your dreams,
                         Am
I guess you needed me to leave.


[Verse 3]
Fmaj7
Still you carried me to sleep,
                 Dm
Leaving when the dream retreats,
Dm
Grasping for an older me,
           F
Some faded image,
F
And it carries you to sleep,
Am                  G
Breathes out in the fog before me,
                  Em
Cattails hit your knees to send,
Em
Some subtle promise,
   Fmaj7
To scatter all their seeds,
                    Dm
To grow before they leave,
Dm
For life and all its consequential,
            F
Complicated scenes,
F
That shake you out of sleep,
            Am                 G
Scrape your knees beneath your feet,
                            Em
I think we bleed because we need to bleed,
Em                  Am     Em   F Dm
We bleed because we need.


[Bridge]
Dm            Em      F                 G  Dm
I just wanted you to carry on and carry me,
                 Em     F                        G      Am
I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be,
              G      C                      Dm
I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me,
                        Em
I guess I wanted you to leave,
                        Am
I guess you needed me to bleed.


[Chorus]
Am
Out loud,
  Bm       G            Am
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
                      G
Those corners of your dreams,
G
I think you needed me,
   C           G
To bleed out loud,
G                       Am
I guess I needed you to freeze me out,
                      F
Those corners of your dreams,
                         C
I guess you needed me to leave.


[Outro]
Bm       G                Am
Come and shake me from my sleep,
             G
Burn up in a bad dream,
          C
I could believe,
Bm       G                Am
Come and shake me from my sleep,
F                   G    F
Come and help me believe.
F