Dance While The Sky Crashes Down

Am G Am E Am

                                 Am
The flowers by your bed are wilting.
                              E
The sun is setting in the west.
                           E
A fog is covering your eyes,
                                   E
Your stockings are attracting flies,
                         Am        
Decay is nibbling at the boards on 
 E         Am
which you rest.

There's someone waiting at your 
   Am
window,
                        Dm
Familiar face without a name.
One night he'll creep in like the 
  E
mist,
                                E
To touch your forehead with a kiss,
                           Am      
And lead you back into the void 
   E           Am
from whence you came.

[Chorus]
                   F    E         
We've all begun to die, and don't 
              Am
know what to do.
         F                E       
Since it hurts to pray to God, 
  Am
when God is dying too.
                   F     E        
Takes strength to laugh, when you 
         Am
start to drown.
Dm         Am              
    And we dance while the sky 
E           Am   E  Am
crashes down.

Am                          
Like that the earth begins to 
      Am
quiver,
Am                         E
And all the oceans turn to black.
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                       E
A ship of maniacs with knives,
Are playing Blackjack with their 
 E
lives,
                           Am   
To kill the time until the giant 
 E       Am
rats attack.

                         Am
It's raining leprosy and acid.
                              Dm
The saints were taken out and shot.
                            E
When someone proffers you a pear,
                          E
You sink your teeth in unaware,
That just beneath the skin lies 
Am          E  Am
pestilence and rot.

[Chorus]
                   F    E         
We've all begun to die, and don't 
              Am
know what to do.
         F                E       
Since it hurts to pray to God, 
  Am      E     Am
when God is dying too.
                   F     E        
Takes strength to laugh, when you 
         Am
start to drown.
Dm         Am              
    And we dance while the sky 
E            Am   E  Am
crashes down.

[Bridge]
Am Dm E E Am E Am
Am Dm E Am A7

Dm           Am            E    
All that now breathes, and all 
        Am
that you love,
Dm          Am                   
All that we weave, will find its 
E               E
way back to the dust.

                       Am
A band of skeletons is playing,
Don't act like you don't know the 
E
tune.
                           E
Your part is echoed in the path,
                           E
Of every dead leaf blowing past,
                       Am          
Against a counterpoint reflected 
  E    Am
off the moon.

                           Am
There is a banquet at the table,
                          Dm
Exotic cheeses wines and cakes.
                       E
And every one of us is damned,
                   E
Until we start to understand,
                        Am         
That living is to gorge ourselves 
       E   Am
at our own wakes.

[Chorus]
                   F    E         
We've all begun to die, and don't 
              Am
know what to do.
         F                E       
Since it hurts to pray to God, 
  Am      E    Am
when God is dying too.
                    F     E       
Takes strength to laugh, when you 
          Am
start to drown.
Dm         Am              
    And we dance while the sky 
E            Am   E  Am
crashes down.

                     F     E      
When the stakes are high, best to 
          Am
play the clown.
Dm            Am              C 
       And we dance while the 
          F      G    Am
sky crashes down.