Set the fire to the third bar
Am - G - F (x2)
Am G F
1. I find the map and draw a
straight line
Am G F
over
rivers, farms, and state lines
Am G F
the
distance from me to where you'd be,
Am
G F
it's
only finger-lengths that I see.
Am G - F - Am G - F
I touch the pla....ce, where I'd find your fa......ce,
Am G F
- Am G
F
my
fingers in creases of distant
dark places.
Am G F
2. I hang my coat up in the
first bar,
Am G F
there
is no peace that I've felt so far,
Am G F
the
laughter penetrates my silence
Am G F
as
drunken men find flaws in science.
Am G F
- Am
G F
Their words mostly noises, ghosts with just voices,
Am G F - Am G F
your
words in my memory, are like
music to me.
Am C
I'm miles from where you are,
- G - F
I lay down on the cold ground, and I,
Am C
I pray that something picks me
up,
- G - Bb ~
and sets me down in your warm arms.
Am G
F
3. After I have travelled so
far,
Am G
F
we'd
set the fire to the third bar,
Am G F
we'd
share each other like an island,
Am
G F
until
exhausted, close our eyelids.
Am G F
- Am
G F
And dreaming pink wildfire, the last place we left dire,
Am G F
- Am
G F
your
soft skin is weeping, a joy you can't keep in.
Am C
I'm miles from where you are,
- G - F
I lay down on the cold ground, and I,
Am C
I pray that something picks me
up,
-
G -
Bb
and sets me down in your warm arms.
+ repeat CHORUS
(orig. = capo 2nd) (Snow
Patrol)