Splintering Heart

	  		Am 

There's a hot hard hurt burning under her skin 

And it pricks her like thorns and it's needles and pins 

And it twists in her body and I know what it is 

D 

        Am                       D 
And I'm paying in pain, it's the cost of the high 
         Am                           D 
Till the weight of the secret and the weight of the lie 
         Am                            D 
Makes my heart want to burst, feel the ache as time goes by 
        Am                        D 
Getting better and worse, getting better and worse 

              Am                        D 
And there's a screw that I tighten as I dream of the kiss 
       Am                            D 
And it twists and it cuts me and you know what it is? 
       F                       G 
It's a fragment of love from a splintering heart 
       F                  G 
And it tears her apart, yeah, but not as much as this 

 

Am  D  Am  D  Am  D  Am  D 

       Am                 D         Am            D 
So you save up your tears   for the moments alone 
         Am                   D        Am                     D 
Till the splinters you gather   leave you glass-hard and numb 
        Gm               Ebmaj7        Dm             Cm 
And the same sun is shining     on the old and the young 
       Gm                  Ebmaj7        Dm               Cm 
On the saints and the sinners,    on the weak and the strong 

Gm  Ebmaj7  Dm  Cm  Gm  Ebmaj7  Dm  Cm  Gm  Ebmaj7  Gm  Ebmaj7  F 
Gm  Ebmaj7  Gm  Dm  Gm  Cm  Eb  F 

              Gm                   Ebmaj7       Gm               Dm 
And there's a burning and freezing        and a cross for a kiss 
       Gm                      Cm           Eb           F 
So she learns to stop dreaming    and you know how it is 
           Gm                Ebmaj7          Gm             Dm 
With these fragments of love        and this splintering heart 
         Gm    Cm           Eb                F        Gm 
With the fragments and this    splintering heart