The Ravenous House

Intro C F C Em Am Em Am G C F C Em Am Em Am G C [Verso 1] C F The sky broke as I drove home C Em And poured out before my eyes Am Em Every dream I'd ever kept Am G In a place where no light could shine C F Now the architecture of my life C Em Stands completely illuminated Am Em Every thought I'd had behind closed doors Am G Who I'd loved, and who I'd hated [Refrão] F C D My life started off in wonder Dm C G Then I awakened into sorrow F C D Searching for the meaning of that dream Dm C G Fell into a pit halfway to heaven [Verso 2] C F When I was first left alone as a child C Em A voice crept in with a song Am Em And through the hitching of my tears Am G I learned to follow along C F And night after night, I sang C Em To the voice at the back of my mind Am Em And when I asked whose voice it was Am G It told me it could be mine [Refrão] F C D Naked in the thorns of sorrow Dm C G In a lightning storm of anger F C D Rage-black clouds come streaming in Dm C G Coming back to claim what I stole from heaven [Ponte] C F And now the voice underneath it all C Em Comes swelling up like a flame Am Em As it burns down my last excuse Am G I finally remember your name C F The name I'd covered in dirt C Em And commanded never be uttered Am Em The voice is calling it over and over Am What have I done to my brother? D C G D C G F C Dm Am F C G Dm {Breakdown} (spoken word over these chords) F Am F C G There was a wound on the wall The first time I came down from my room I heard my father playing music And smelled my mother cooking breakfast The sunlight was streaming through the cracks in the blinds And I came down, and there was a wound on the wall No-one else mentioned it Hanging on the wall A family portrait And I laid eyes on myself for the first time Could that be me? But now, I knew I was seen I was watched, by whose eyes? And a voice in my head said "That's not you, you could be so much greater You could escape, you could leave this behind Leave these strangers behind, you could build up so much more" Whose eyes were on me then? Whose eyes were on me as I got on the computer? Whose eyes were on me as I guessed the passwords? Whose eyes were on me when I started touching the wound on the wall? Whose eyes were on me as my family became strangers to me And I became a stain on their carpet And their love became unacceptable to me And my parents became a liquor bottle that they forgot about, and a car to get me to the next party And my brother became missing pills from his prescription Because, because the wound said The wound said "This is love and nothing else" "Without me, you don't exist" "You are unlovable unless you get what I give you" "What the people in movies get" "You step on people's necks with no regret, every good feeling in the world, everybody loves you, nobody loves anybody but you" Whose eyes were on me when I started to believe it? It has been your eyes, this unacceptable love, how can I meet them now? How can I come back? [Refrão] F Am F C G I give up F Am F C G I give up Asus2 [Verso 3] A Am Let us take you back to where we came in Am We were united, an undivided nation D G We got divided, it was something inside us A And it was not us Am You were so naive, you were just like an animal D Told what to believe by the beast who took control G A He said it won't kill you, and wanting is normal A And your life became one of survival Am The decisions you've made, if you can call it deciding D G A Without light in your eyes, you're a walking suicide if you change your mind A If you get bored and you split the scene Am There's a bill for everything that you thought was free D G A It's a new eternity, was there something you wanted at the bottom of the trash? [Refrão] D A D A E I give up D A D A E G I give up [Verso 4] A Am Let us take you back to where you came in Am A boy clinging to the cliff of revelation D G So scared of what you would find, you started crying A "It was not me" A Stopped at the borderline, they stripped your disguise Am So you read a book that won a Pulitzer Prize D G It was about death, it didn't help A You saw yourself in it A And you were disturbed at the conclusions that it led to Am But you couldn't say what because the author was dead too D And so though you made fun of us G A You have now become one of us [Refrão] D A D A E I give up D A D A E I give up D A D A E I give up D A D A E G I give up A G F#m F G A I give up A G F#m F G A I give up A G F#m F G A I give up A G F#m F G A I give up A G F#m F G A Asus4 Aadd9 Gadd9 Outro A Asus4 And Matt came back to the table Aadd9 And said "The bill's already paid" Gadd9 "If you decide that you want love" Aadd9 Gadd9 A "I love you, I love you, I love you"