I Can't Feel My Face - The Smith Street Band

I Can't Feel My Face

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(verse 1)
D A G
I've been waking up with nothing left, feeling like I may as well not have slept
D A G
Taking burns with those kind of friends, I need less of those kind of friends
D A G
And I smell like error and I taste like waste and I'm breathing like a couple of someone else's mistakes
D A G
And I'm sorry for making your house feel that way
D A G
And Jess turned to Morgan and said, "I hope I haven't lost your respect
D A G
With this hot glass ripping up the inside of my lips,"
D
And everyone gave up, started sleeping with their laurels
A G
We're all back on everything and we're not speaking to our morals
 
(Bridge)
D A
And we get high because we're scared of time
G Em
And we're scared of time because we're always...
 
[Refrão]
D Bm A
And I can't feel my face, but I can feel yours
D Bm A
A spare bedroom, another "someone else's place," spend our birthdays outdoors
D Bm A
And on the twenty-first of May, twenty-one years ago I was born
D Bm A
Twenty years ago I was
D Bm A
Bo-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
D Bm A
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
 
(verse 2)
D A G
Meet me on the corner of the last couple of years and I'll be
D A G
Trying to roll a cigarette while blinking back the fears I'll have a
D A G
Story and a scratch somewhere and I'll do my best to tell you
D A G
Everything, tell you everything I've ever done
D A G
And tonight we'll waste no one's time but ours, push me up against a brick wall somewhere in between the bars
D A G
I won't feel scared, I won't think once I'll just hold you like I've done nothing wrong
 
(Bridge)
D A
And we get high because we're scared of time
G Em
And we're scared of time because we're always...
 
[Refrão]
D Bm A
And I can't feel my face, but I can feel yours
D Bm A
A spare bedroom, another "someone else's place," spend our birthdays outdoors
D Bm A
And on the twenty-first of May, twenty-two years ago I was born
D Bm A
Twenty-one years ago I was
D Bm A
Bo-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
D Bm A
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
 
D Bm A
D Bm A
D Bm A
D Bm A
D

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