From The Bottom My Heart

[G#m]Fire on the porch on a summer's night

[E]All of my things are there inside

[B]Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher [D#7]

[G#m]I smell leaves and burning tires

[E]Dogs in the meadows barking wild

[B]Blackbird rise up, tell me what you have [D#7]done

[G#m]I'm not drunk and I'm not sad

[E]There's nothing inside that I want back

[B]Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're [D#7]at

[G#m]Do you wonder how I am tonight

[E]Then don't loose time looking in my eyes

[B]Not every tear means you're gonna [D#7]cry

From the bottom of my [E]heart

Comes a cold dark [B]feeling

There is nothing but [D#7]dust

in the layers, I'm [G#m]peeling

From the bottom of my [E]heart

Beats a rattling [B]drum

coming up from the [D#7]depths

Into the rays of the [G#m]sun

[G#m]Now, under crushing skies of grays

[E]Paralyzed with phantom pains

[B]Before this room became just a [D#7]place

[G#m]Where I just sleep through endless days

[E]Spinning webs and carving names

[B]Where thoughts break up, exploding in [D#7]space

[G#m]But I once crossed a quarter-mile

[E]Through black pools of razor wires

[B]And cut through steel

[D#7]with the edge of a file

[G#m]While singing rhapsodies in stride

[E]Hellbent and dignified

[B]But my time has come

[D#7]Who you fooling and why?

From the bottom of my [E]heart

Comes a cold dark [B]feeling

There is imminent [D#7]death

to the promise, I'm [G#m]keeping

From the bottom of my heart[E]

Comes an army of one[B]

Marching back up the [D#7]steps

Into the rays of the [G#m]sun

[G#m]Pale-faced and hollowed eyes

[E]Buried under ruptured skies

[B]Not every smile means I'm laughing [D#7]inside

[G#m]Two-faced and compromised

[E]I've enraptured you with lies

[B]Everything means nothing

and tonight everything is [D#7]mine

From the bottom of my [E]heart

Comes a cold dark [B]feeling

I have buried so [D#7]much

In the layers, I'm [G#m]peeling

From the bottom of my [E]heart

A battle will [B]come

Marching back up the [D#7]steps

To the rays of the [G#m]sun

From the bottom of my [E]heart

Comes a cold dark [B]feeling

Wrapped around [D#7]tight

With no sign of [G#m]leaving

From the bottom of my [E]heart

A ballad is [B]sung

Through a whisper, she [D#7]comes

Into the rays of the [G#m]sun