Fast comes the blessing of all that you dreamed
But then comes the curses of diamonds and rings
Only at first did it have its appeal
But now you can’t tell the false from the real

Am (hold)
Who can you trust?
Who can you trust?

When everything, everything, everything you touch turns to gold, gold, gold
Everything, everything, everything you touch turns to gold, gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold

Am (E) F (x2)

Standard Tuning – No Capo

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I get down with the victim
We both you need them
To stuck in the middle
Of all irrelevance
And your heart is a beating
Cause you know that you gotta
Get out of the middle
And after the time

When you’ve made it,
Won’t you tell me what to do
Cause I’ve played it, all wrong
When you’ve made it,
Won’t you tell me what to do
Cause I’m playing it, all wrong

You can’t fight the friction (So, ease it off)
You can’t take the pressure (So, ease it off)
I stomp the ground to be strong (So, ease it off)
You can’t fight the friction, so

Ease it off

And get into the system
We both know you’ll need one
At the tip of the needle
It’s taking over you
And your heart is beating
Cause you know that you gotta
Get out of the middle
And rise to the top now

When you’ve made it,
Won’t you tell me what to do
Cause I’ve played it, all wrong
When you’ve made it,
Won’t you tell me what to do
Cause I’m playing it, all wrong

You can’t fight the friction (So, ease it off)
You can’t take the pressure (So, ease it off)
I stomp the ground to be strong (So, ease it off)
You can’t fight the friction, so

Ease it off

Oh Why can’t you let it go
Like a bird in the snow
This is no place to build your home

You can’t fight the friction (So, ease it off)
You can’t take the pressure (So, ease it off)
I stomp the ground to be strong (So, ease it off)
You can’t fight the friction, so

Intro:

Verse:

4am beside myself
and what I think of mental health
all the things that worry me
all the things you don’t believe
I’ve been told just what to do
where to look and point my view
all the things that I could be
I think I learned in therapy

am I just a shadow you drew

Chorus:

it comes back to you, it comes back to you
all the things that you had lost will find their

way to you
it comes back to you, it comes back to you
looking back into the past and I can
see it through

it comes to back you oh oh
it comes to back you oh oh
it comes to back you oh oh
it comes back to you

Verse:
mocking birds and diamond rings
oh I have thought of greater things
all the things that fly by me
all the lives that I could lead
maybe I was born for that
or maybe I was first to last
you could call it cowardice
but leave me to my studied bliss

am I just a shadow you drew

Chorus:

it comes back to you, it comes back to you
all the things that you had lost will find their

way to you
it comes back to you, it comes back to you
looking back into the past and I can
see it through

it comes to back you oh oh
it comes to back you oh oh
it comes to back you oh oh
it comes back to you

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[Chorus 2]

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(Becomes audible at 2:50)

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[Chorus 3]

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Throwing me a sharp right
It’s not a picture perfect life
Not what I had in mind
Let me write my own line

(Chorus)
I’ve got this place
That I’ve filled with empty space
Oh I’m trying not to face what I’ve done

My hopeless opus
I’m in this race and I’m hoping just to place
Oh I’m trying not to face what’s become of me

My hopeless opus

Hey Mr. safe man hustle me an okay
I could slide take a dive take it for the home team
Hey Mr. postman slip me one more green note
I’ve been low hit the floor looking just to make broke
It’s not a picture perfect life
Not what I had in mind
Let me write my own line

(Chorus)
I’ve got this place
That I’ve filled with empty space
Oh I’m trying not to face what I’ve done
My hopeless opus
I’m in this race and I’m hoping just to place
Oh I’m trying not to face what’s become of me

My hopeless opus

Hey Mr.
Hey Mr.
Hey Mr. cage man
Cherry bomb
Let me get
Cherry bomb
Cherry bomb

(Guitar Solo)


(Chorus)
I’ve got this place
That I’ve filled with empty space
Oh I’m trying not to face what I’ve done

My hopeless opus
I’m in this race and I’m hoping just to place
Oh I’m trying not to face what’s become of me

My hopeless opus