The Wolf

             A                                G#m
Said, "In truth I don't really want to talk about it"
              C#m
Christmas lights dangled sadly from the table in the operating room
A                               G#m
Last I heard you're an addict about it
        C#m
Full of rage and Corona
                                        A
Trying to blow the birthday kid candles out
                        G#m        C#m
Trap doors and the retaliator lead out
                                                    A
To the field where our extended family buried their lies
                                         G#m
If you're going, bring some faith and a flashlight
       C#m
Follow signs that read
"It's twenty miles before you finally see fire"
(Maybe you're paying too much for your life insurance policy)

[Verse 2]
               A                               G#m
Now there's something to say for the art of confusion
           C#m                                                   A
I got the courage to enquire where your body traveled all of the time
                               G#m          C#m
"I gotta climb out of this elevator, hadn't moved me once yet
                                        A
Do I expect that it should really start now?"
                              G#m
The waitress oversees you levitating
         C#m                                                      A
Couldn't think it to words and watched your body lift up into the sky
                                 G#m
Everyone there was just in awe about it
       C#m
Seen a miracle and drank away the thought from our minds


[Pre-Chorus 1]
          C#m      E
There was you and me
    A             C#m
And nothing in-between
      C#m           E
It's right and wrong
     A             E F#m
Goes on and on and on


[Chorus]
A            E
 This is the wave that you could never conquer
A            E                          B       A
 Losing the smallest piece of truth we used to know
             C#m
I wasn't prepared to embark with the wolf of the mountain
A            E                                C#m
 It wasn't a place that we could call our own

[Verse 3]
       A                                         G#m
Now I don't want to seem like it's split at the seams
         C#m
See the pain on the wall? See the blood in the street?
          A                                           G#m
There is nothing you've got when you die that you keep
           C#m
You were all that you were, were you all you could be?
          A                                   G#m
In the blink of an eye there's a hole in your belly
      C#m
Your body recoils ironically into the family planning aisle
A                                    G#m
I overhear, "I don't know where I'm going
     C#m
I'm going anyway
Don't let 'em tell you that I never found..."


[Pre-Chorus 2]
C#m     E      A           C#m
You and me and nothing in-between
     C#m          E        A             E F#m
It's right and wrong, goes on and on and on
    C#m        E      A              C#m
The truth for me is grasping at the seam
    C#m     E          A               E F#m
So truthfully, do you want to die for me?


[Chorus]
A            E
 This is the wave that you could never conquer
A            E                          B       A
 Losing the smallest piece of truth we used to know
             C#m
I wasn't prepared to embark with the wolf of the mountain
A            E                                C#m
 It wasn't a place that we could call our own