Verse 1: Dm F Bb Not whole, not wholly separate, but syncopated C Dm Single in our nature, and because of the times F Not a word was said when the lights came on Bb C Or a glance given pause at the cost of our desired wrongs Dm F It's second nature to love you, it's first to die Bb C Dm And we were killed upon waking, killed upon waking to the life F We weren't prepared to live but rebelled to realize Bb C We were killed upon the pavement, Bonnie we're immortalized in Chorus: Dm F Blood, cold, cold love, we were still young Bb C When the radio lights came on Dm F Elton's on the air, no fair dear that we were still here Bb C In the absence of everything, abstain from fear Dm And if I cry in your arms F Bb Just some other xxxx, just some other xxxx C Just some other things that I've been dealing with Dm F I'd die in your arms, bury me while playing this Bb C Bury me saying "You were all I ever needed" Dm F And hold me like we're dying from the liquor that we drank Bb C Down in hotel rooms, to feel warm in cold love Verse 2: Dm F What's harder, harder to say? Bb That you want me to stay C Dm That you want me to stay unchanged for you? F Bb C Chained to a lie, we're the same, you and I, we're the same Dm F Bb Not the same, we hurt differently, but consistent in our pain C Dm Equal and equidistant in the way we laugh F To lay bare the weight of our cold love affair Bb C Recalling the days where we were, we weren't, we were Dm F Wrong for the papers, wrong for the dinner tables Bb C Of the inner rings of the rich and famous anythings Dm F Bb It's gone, not bad, just gone, my bad, just wrong, we had C And we had, and we were then in Chorus: Dm F Blood, cold, cold love, we were still young Bb C When the radio lights came on Dm F Elton's on the air, no fair dear that we were still here Bb C In the absence of everything, abstain from fear Dm And if I cry in your arms F Bb Just some other xxxx, just some other xxxx C Just some other things that I've been dealing with Dm F I'd die in your arms, bury me while playing this Bb C Bury me saying "You were all I ever needed" Dm F And hold me like we're dying from the liquor that we drank Bb C Cown in hotel rooms, to feel warm in cold love Outro: Dm F What's harder, harder to say? Bb That you want me to stay C Dm That you want me to stay unchanged for you? F Bb C Chained to a lie, we're the same, you and I, we're the same Dm F What's harder, harder to fake? Bb That you want me to stay C Dm That you want me to stay the same for you? F Bb C Chained to a lie, who's to blame? Let it die, we're the same Dm F In blood, cold, cold love, we were still young Bb C When the radio lights came on Dm Bb F Elton's on the air
