[Intro] [Distant low-frequency pulse like a buried heart under soil, sparse detuned piano notes dripping like condensation, sub-bass drift, no drums yet, cold open space] [Verse 1] [Am Fmaj7 Em G] You were the last breath left standing upright [Am Fmaj7 Em C] I was the last shadow still learning to fight [Am Fmaj7 Em G] We shut the door on the ballroom of bone [Am Fmaj7 Em C] Where the dead kept dancing long after we’d gone [Pre-Chorus] [Dm Am Em F] This love is a body [Dm Am Em] Already cold [Dm Am Em F] Already claimed by the ground [Dm Am Em] It knows what we found -and what we buried to keep it- [Chorus] [(Am F C G)] (You were the dead I kept dragging home) [(Am F C Em)] (I was the dead you still wanted to own) [(Am F C G)] (We were just bodies that needed a reason) [(Am F C Em)] (To crawl into bed and pretend we still bleed) [(Am F C G)] (You were the dead I kept dragging home) [(Am F C Em)] (I was the dead you still wanted to own) [(Am F C G)] (We were just bodies that needed a reason) [(Am F C)] (To feel something warm before morning arrived) [Verse 2] [Am Fmaj7 Em G] You were the dead that the devil still dared [Am Fmaj7 Em C] I was the hunger you never quite shared [Am Fmaj7 Em G] We laid in the dark and made love to the night [Am Fmaj7 Em C] Two corpses still trying to prove they were right [Bridge] [Sudden drop to near silence, only a single sustained cello-like synth and distant metallic scraping] [Dm Am Em F] Clock strikes three and the driveway is empty [Dm Am Em] Except for the car that still carries your weight [Dm Am Em F] Moon in your eyes like a coin on the tongue [Dm Am Em] Of a mouth that forgot how to say it was late [Solo] [Distorted half-time guitar over the verse chords, slow and deliberate, notes bending like they’re being pulled from under earth, no high squeals—only low, grinding phrases that never quite resolve] [Chorus] [(Am F C G)] (You were the dead I kept dragging home) [(Am F C Em)] (I was the dead you still wanted to own) [(Am F C G)] (We were just bodies that needed a reason) [(Am F C Em)] (To crawl into bed and pretend we still bleed) [(Am F C G)] (You were the dead I kept dragging home) [(Am F C Em)] (I was the dead you still wanted to own) [(Am F C G)] (We were just bodies that needed a reason) [(Am F C)] (To feel something warm before morning arrived) [Breakdown] [Everything strips to kick and sub-bass only, vocals almost spoken, dry and close] [Am] You were the dead [F] I was draggin’ around [C] I was the dead [G] That you wanted to love [Am] We were just bodies [F] To give us a reason [C] To lay in the bed [Em] And feel warm again [Outro] [Full arrangement returns once, then collapses into the same sparse piano and sub-bass as the intro, fading under the last line] [Am Fmaj7 Em C] We were the last ones still standing [Am Fmaj7 Em] And the last ones still landing [Am Fmaj7] In a bed that already knew [Em C] How the living go quiet
