Failure On My Lips

E5
E5 Emaj7   E5 Emaj7    x4

[Verse 1]
A               C        G
Under an eclipse of ever-rising 
feeling
A                      C
Moving faster through my veins
    G                 A
And bleeding out the sun
               C          G
That's beating down our necks
A                  C    G  F
And burning my eyes


[Pre Chorus]
A            C                   G
If this is a crutch for the weak
              F         E
Then I am the least of these
A             C                  
So cut off my arms and break my 
   G
legs
          F          E
So I don't feel this anymore
A      C               G      F   E
Choking on all of the feeling
A         C            G      F   E
 That I'm swallowing in

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[Chorus]
A     Am        C      G  F   A
 Tasting the failure on my lips
         Am      C    G  F  A
That I've lead in
         Am      C    G  F  A
That I've lead in
         Am      C    G  F
That I've lead in

[Breakdown]

E x4
    E
And this is my last chance for 
survival
  E
A last ditch effort to cure my ache

[Verse 2]
A         Am             C
 We're so vain aren't we?
         G       F      A
We're so proud and empty
           Am             C  
We're left leaning on our only 
      G    F   A
intrigue
    Am                 C           
The lies that I've told they won't 
G     F      A
bury us whole
           Am        C    G  F
They won't find us in time

[Bridge Breakdown]

This is the end of the story that I 
can't forget

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Bb A F

[Other]
     D          Bb        D      
This goes far be-yond our 
   F
loyalties
       D         Bb      D    F
And we feign as a shield
           D        Bb      
That's teeming with guilt and 
  D          F
resonance
       D        Bb    D
But we held our heads so high

F    D    Bb    D
F    D    Bb    D

Fmaj7 D Fmaj7 D Fmaj7 x8
                         Fmaj7
We have not yet defeated failure