Passion

G         [320033]
Cadd9     [x32033]
D         [xx0232]
Gsus2     [300033]
Dadd4/F#  [200033]
Em7       [022033]
Cadd9*    [870xxx] (muted)
Em7*      [070xxx] (muted)

[Verse]
G                                Cadd9
The legends of beauty hits to me with your back against the wall,
G                          Cadd9          D
How can you look this good naked and understand the pain at all
G                      Cadd9
Panic-stricken while I look for a better place to hide,
G                        Cadd9            D
and how have I still not commandeered the balls


G                                    Cadd9
To lay waits the second best in this exhibit of our excess
          G                          Cadd9   D
And I can see my past success judging open unimpressed
          G                            Cadd9
And I can feel my every footstep in my chest
             G                             Gsus2  Dadd4/F#
Until my own weak heart beat as you slept


    Em7                       Cadd9                  G
And a little bit of poison it always does the trick
           Em7                             Cadd9     G
There’s an antidote to the edge and living life like this


[Chorus]
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
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Cadd9                      D
I’ll take being all heart, no head
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                     D
I’ll take being all heart and no head


[Verse]
G                                                  Cadd9
With a heart so physical it was beautiful, through trembling lips I spoke
         G                          Cadd9
Of how I wasn’t happy either with a life of hope and smoke
D     G                                                   Cadd9
And I turned to you and half-whispered, half-croaked some shitty little joke
               G                               Cadd9
Watched as the frown fold lines on your pretty face broken
D      G                                Cadd9
In our little nest above the street and apalled of the rain
           G                          Cadd9
I tried to verbalize fading light and explain away the pain
       G                                      Cadd9
Of how sometimes I wish I could stay sick and have unending excuse to be away


Em7                  Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
From what I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late,
Em7                  Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
From what I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late


[Bridge]
            G                        Cadd9*
And is this passion, or is this just fashionable
                Em7*
Maybe I’m too impressionable
                   Cadd9*
Maybe I’ve learned sweet fuck-all
              G
But I’ll take this life
                             Cadd9
Over jeans without holes and never saying goodbyes
                                   Em7
And I’ll feel the cold and I’ll go broke before I die


[Verse]
Em7                       Cadd9                          D
But there’s a child in me who still believes that he can fly
                   G                                      Cadd9
And I grew up in a good house, maybe too good as it seems now
                                    G                      Cadd9
Never knew how hard I’d have to try to make magic and make money,
                    D                  G
and there’s nothing tragic romantic or funny about
                  Cadd9
stealing food and running from every decision I’ve ever made,
G                      Cadd9
watch my undying youth be extinguished by my own flame


Em7             Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
What I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late,
Em7             Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
what I’m taught and what I’m told…


[Chorus]
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                      D
I’ll take being all heart, no head
G                              Cadd9
And is this passion, no I will not look back or regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                         D
And I’ll take being all heart and no head