F
F Bb F C x2
FBb
Astoria, I'm warning ya
FC
Not ready yet, not for ya
FBb
Don't wanna know my darkest lows
FC
My blackest pitch, murder of crows
FBb
Feels far from home, close to the veil
FC
Goodbye mothers fairy tale
FBb
Never after will suffice
FCF
When star crossed lovers take their life
BbFFCBbFFCFBb
Now we begin, a harlequin
FC
Kaleidoscope, in spite of when
FBb
Top of the world, to lowest worth
FC
From blackest pearl, to slow rebirth
FCBbBb
Don't remind me what the price is
BbFBb/FC
When left to my own devices
FCBbBb
'Cause I'll find out in all due time
BbFBb/FC
What happens to never say die
BbFFCBbFFC (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) CCFBbFFCBbFFCCFBbFFC
Oh, yeah, I'll say
BbFFC
Whatever doesn't make me stronger kills me
CFBbFFC
But it's gonna be a long year
BbFFC
'Til the hospital can find hope in me
CFBb
(Tell me I survive)
FFC
Do I survive you, Astoria?
CFBb
(Tell me I survive)
FFC
Do I survive you, Astoria?
CFBbBbFCCG
You know everything happens in
DDAB
Happens in threes
BF#m
A fevered blur
F#m
Through names obscured
D
And speeches slur
D
What's another bridge burnt?
F#m
I'm on my own
F#m
You came alone
D
All dressed up in bad news
D
I know you've been hurt too
D
This would be the wrong move
D
Maybe we should leave soon?
F#m
You can lay with me while you think of him
E
Drown our sorrows deep in each others skin
D
I'll touch your face while I think of her
E11
I will raise my lips to the way we were
F#m
Bite my neck while you say his name
E
I will scratch your back to forget her face
D
Our regrets taste sweet through a soft liqueur
E11
We can raise our lips to the way we were
C#BBbC
D G x4
(Technically just D until "I wanna hurt myself until I love it", but this is good for one instrument)
DG
On a good day I'm the bad news
Gsus4G
For the wrong girl with the right wounds
DG
On a good day I'm the bad news
CC
For the wrong girl with the right wounds
DGGsus4G
Hey, ever just say fuck it
DGGsus4G
Maybe I'll drink this all away in buckets
DGGsus4G
Oh hey, might as well say fuck it
DGGsus4
I wanna hurt myself until I love it
DA
I should've known you're not alone when you take somebody home and
BmG
The little deaths are a little less
Even if just for a moment
DA
Hey, lets all say fuck it
BmC
I'm gonna make my mother so proud of it
FGCFCCG
Yeah______________
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
GCFCCGFCCGD
Hope fades away in Astoria
FCCG
I'll say
FCCG
Whatever doesn't make me stronger kills me
CFCCG
But it's gonna be a long year
GCFCCG
'Til the hospital might find hope in me
(Technically just G all the way through, but the C and F substitute for background vocals)
G
Astoria
G
Astoria
GCGGF
Astoria
FFCGGC
Let the melody save me, Astoria
FFCG
Let the melody save me, Astoria
FFGG
The quid pro quos that will compose
EmGAmF
From esoteric to common pros
F (CBbCBb) CD
Asto_____________ri____a