When The Flies Fell

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I see the slashes on your legs
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And the smile on your face again
          G
Blood is drying on your fingernails
          G                    Em
Laughing at something that I said
                  G
Were you still sitting 'hind the 
stairs
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With the new boy in your 
            Em
hair when I left?
             G
You seem to recognize my face
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But my hands feel like somebody 
  Em
else's


[Chorus]
 G
  I blanked last night when you told
 me
 Em                                
  I blanked last night when you 
      G
told me twice

  I blanked last night when you told
 me
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Em
  I blanked last night when you told
 me twice


[Verse 2]
              G
You cut your hair off with a blade
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Didn't want a single trace, that 
       Em
poor girl
           G
The water couldn't get you clean
          G                        
So you burned your skin instead 
        Em
with the curl (You live in your 
hell)
               G
I watched an angel cut the sky
            G
Feathers plucked from flight (Just 
to torture yourself)
         G
And she sunk right through the 
ground
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From colossal heights (Tell me, what
 could I do?)
           G
When she cried out for my name
    G
I didn't hesitate (The moment when 
the flies fell)
                  G
I screamed, "I cannot be your saint
                      Em
I know you can't be saved"


[Chorus]
 G
  I blanked last night when you told
 me
Em                                
  I blanked last night when you 
        G
told me twice

  I blanked last night when you told
 me
Em
  I blanked last night when you told
 me twi—
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  I blanked last night when you told
 me
Em                                
  I blanked last night when you 
        G
told me twice

  I blanked last night when you told
 me
Em
  I blanked last night when you told
 me twice