[Intro – G major → Bb major] [G major] Raise a glass to the mess and the beauty beneath To the cracked dinner plate and the truth in your teeth [Bb major] If life’s a rough banquet, then give me your worst I’ll make holy communion out of wine-stained shirts --- [Verse 1 – Bb major → E major → C major → A major] [Bb major] I saw the Engineer brooding, counting bolts in the rain Measuring starlight, calibrating pain [E major] While the Jackal prowled alleys, tongue sharp with delight Feasting on secrets, making darkness feel right [C major] But I’m the fool at the table, with a laugh and a pen Making altars from bottle caps, gods out of friends [A major] You can try to define me with angles and grease But I’ll turn blueprints to ballads, turn sorrow to feast --- [Pre-Chorus – A major → D major → E minor] [A major] ‘Cause I toast to your heartbreak, your bad coffee stains The beauty in chaos, the joy in what’s strange [D major] Give me ruined bouquets, give me jokes with a sting [E minor] I’ll make meaning out of madness, I’ll crown the old king --- [Chorus – E minor → G major → B minor → C# major → D major → G major → E minor] [E minor] I sing for the clumsy, the lovely, the lost For lipstick on paychecks and dreams double-crossed [G major] If life is absurd—well, then let’s eat like beasts [B minor] I’ll turn every dumb moment to a banquet, a feast [C# major] Yeah, I bless every blunder, I raise every scar [D major] In the glare of the streetlights, we’re holy, we’re stars [G major] If the world’s just a riddle, then laughter’s the key [E minor] The Poet’s bright hunger: Come celebrate with me --- [Verse 2 – C# minor → A major → G major → C# minor] [C# minor] You engineer order, you jackal the ache But I’ll picnic on rooftops with what others forsake [A major] I’ll rhyme with your chaos, I’ll waltz with your fear Build castles from punchlines, pour myth in your beer [G major] You can run from the longing, you can hide from the hurt But I’ll write hymns on napkins and crown you dessert [C# minor] I’ll roast all your patterns, I’ll dance in your doubt The feast is the living—the rest can stay out --- [Pre-Chorus – E major → B major → D major] [E major] So here’s to the mess-ups, the “I shouldn’t have said” To flirting with failure, to breakfast in bed [B major] Here’s to love that’s unpretty, to hunger unmasked [D major] To finding a sunrise where shadows were cast --- [Chorus – E minor → G major → B minor → C# major → D major → G major → E minor] [E minor] I sing for the clumsy, the lovely, the lost For lipstick on paychecks and dreams double-crossed [G major] If life is absurd—well, then let’s eat like beasts [B minor] I’ll turn every dumb moment to a banquet, a feast [C# major] Yeah, I bless every blunder, I raise every scar [D major] In the glare of the streetlights, we’re holy, we’re stars [G major] If the world’s just a riddle, then laughter’s the key [E minor] The Poet’s bright hunger: Come celebrate with me --- [Bridge – F# minor → A major → D major → G major] [F# minor] So bring me your silence, your “should’ve” and “when” Your half-finished stories, your wildest “again” [A major] I’ll taste every failure, I’ll toast every flaw Life’s sweetest abundance is tasting it raw [D major] So here’s to the hungry, the hallowed, the weird The saints with their smudges, the gods with their beards [G major] May your glass always shimmer, may your mess never cease This poet’s forever—come join in the feast --- [Outro – Eb major → G major] [Eb major] [G major]
