Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy

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Which you just repeat through the 
verses.

[Intro]

Am  C  F  C Em x2

[Verse]

Am                      C
Thought cycle gusty, a mind filled 
with hot air.
       F                         
Must I care for nothing more than 
    C          Em
myself? Do I dare
          Am              
admit the fraught thoughts 
cavorting? Resorting in 
 C
inner-directed mourning
        F                          
for the part of me that was 
      C              Em
selfless but left without a warning.
     Am                            
Well that’s what I said, but maybe 
          C
it’s the fact that I detest
     F                         
this obsession with myself that 
          C              Em
leaves a mess inside my head.
             Am             
Oh shit, I’m doing it again, 
            C
repelling any potential friend,
          F                    C  
revealing my innate ability to 
               Em
never fully comprehend
Am                                
anything bigger than myself, but 
      C
in the end I still pretend
       F                           
Condescending anyone polite enough 
                 C          Em
to choose to misspend their time
Am                           C
watching me as I achieve my secret 
social mission.
    F                         
To drain people with my boring 
  C               Em
stories and opinions.
   Am                          
To see the bigger picture takes 
  C
intelligence and wisdom,
      F                          
but I won’t see nothing with just 
    C          Em
myself in my vision.

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[Chorus]

Am  C  F  C  x2

[Riff]

Am  C  F  C Em x2

[Verse]

         Am                   
I go outside, a blitz of faces 
      C                         F
unwilling to confess to any empathy,
                    C            
endlessly incessantly declining any 
Em
pleasantries.
Am                        
Heavily breathing, socially 
  C                      
teething. I’m open like a 
        F
vivisection.
                       C           
Intense tendency to dwell, seething
 Em
 over missed connections.
Am                C
Infected by my perceptions that I’m 
a non-entity,
F                         
project my insecurity until 
  C            Em
intensity is weaponry.
Am                          
Grieving a heavenly fiction I 
      C
perceived whilst I was dreaming.
  F                       
Awake! Freezing, wheezing, 
   C                      Em
fundamentally I’m still believing 
that,
Am                            
this is an elegy for concepts I 
  C
conceived in deep sleep,
      F                         
an’ I helplessly watch them fade 
          C               Em
while I awake, I try and keep them 
alive.
Am                C
Incomparable with life but 
eventually they die
        F                        
and the brain I used to cultivate 
   C               Em
reveals my lovers were a lie.

[Chorus]

Am  C  F  C  x2

[Riff]

Am  C  F  C Em x2

[Verse]

Am                            C
When inside my mind I find a way to 
replicate reality.
F                               
Through lucid dreaming I decimate 
   C                 Em
the limitations of actuality.
Am                     C   
Capacity practically eternal, 
               F
mortality external,
                         C  
no god but I investigate the 
                        Em
blasphemous worship of the 
nocturnal.
Am                               
Internally existing without 
C                                 
morality creates profanity without 
F
the travesty
and compared to the apathy of 
C           Em              Am
realness I reveal my own insanity.
                C                  
The majesty of fantasy protects me 
      F
from tragedy.
                       C           
Normality’s effects reject the 
       Em
agony of rationality
     Am                          
but thankfully penetrates with no 
  C
avail to my unreality,
        F                        
an elaborately designed privately 
  C              Em
owned spiral galaxy.
Am                        C
Financially I’m failing, naturally 
decaying.
F                             
Soon I’ll have no place safe to 
    C                    Em
sleep if these bills still need 
paying,
Am                             C
displaying cravings with open eyes 
for something mind expanding
    F                          
for when I drift away I see the 
   C               Em
totality of understanding.