verse 1
Am D/F# G C
e|------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
B|------1-----1-----1-----|------------------------|------0-----0------0------|------1-----1-----1-----|
G|--------2-----2-----2---|------2-----2-----2-----|--------0------0------0---|--------0-----0-----0---|
D|----2-----2-----2-----2-|----0---0-----0-----0---|----0-----0------0------0-|----2-----2-----2-----2-| x4
A|-0----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|-3----------------------|
E|------------------------|-2--------2-----2-----2-|-3------------------------|------------------------|
Am D/F#
The lights were low enough, you guessed
G C
You swapped your conscience with your father's medication
Am D/F#
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
G C
And on the way, you wrote out a self-made declaration
Am D/F#
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
G C
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
Am D/F#
And made a pact with you and god
G C
If you don't move, I swear to you I'm gonna make ya
Chorus 1
C Em G C
e|-------8-----8-----8-----|-------7-----7-----7-----|-----------------------------|-------8-----8-----8-----|
B|---------8-----8-----8---|---------8-----8-----8---|-------12-----12-----12------|---------8-----8-----8---|
G|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---12----12-----12-----12----|---9-------9-----9-----9-|
D|-----10------------------|-----9-------------------|-----12-----12-----12-----12-|-----10------------------|
A|-------------------------|-7-----------------------|-10--------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-8-----------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------|-8-----------------------|
C Em
Do you need me?
G C
Do you need me?
C Em
Do you need me?
G C
Do you need me?
verse 2
Am D G C
e|-------5-----5-----5-----|-------------------------|-------3-----3-----3-----|-------3-----3----3-----|
B|---------5-----5-----5---|-------7-----7-----7-----|---------3-----3-----3---|---------5----5-----5---|
G|---5-------5-----5-----5-|---7-----7-----7-----7---|---4-------4-----4-----4-|---5-------5----5-----5-|
D|-----7-------------------|-----7-----7-----7-----7-|-----5-------------------|-----5------------------| x4
A|-------------------------|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3----------------------|
E|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3-----------------------|------------------------|
Am D
When the first officer arrived
G C
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
Am D
When you finally recognized
G C
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you
Am D
Can you hear me, what's your name?
G C
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
Am D
As the high school's letting out
G C
All the kids are sayin' the same thing that they used to
Chorus 2
C Em
It's an alien
G C
It's an alien
C Em
It's an alien
G C
It's an alien
Interlude
Am D G C
Am D G C
verse 3
Am D
The lights are low enough you guessed
G C
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
Am D
The doctor asked about your ears
G C
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation
Am D
The revelation never scares
G C
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
Am D
Were you just finally letting go?
G C
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?
Chorus 3
C Em
Didn't mean to
G C
Didn't mean to
C Em
Didn't mean to
G C
Didn't mean to
C Em
Oh I didn't mean ------------------ to
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
G C
Oh I didn't mean ---------- to
(Don't let me go)
C Em
No I didn't mean ------------------ to
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
G C
Oh I didn't mean ----------- to
(Never let you go)
Outro
Am G
Am G
Am G
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
Am G
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
Am G
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
Am G
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone