Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 I am out here studying stones

 Trying to learn to be less alive

 Using all of my will

 To keep very still

  Ch3

Still even on the inside

 I've cut all of the pertinent wires

 So my eyes can't make that connection

 I am holding my breath

 I am feigning my death

  Ch3

When I'm looking in your direction

 'Course numb is an old hat

 Old as my oldest memories

 See that one's my mother

 And that one's my father

  Ch3

And that one in the hat, that's me

 It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon

 When I got out on the open road

 But any more pent up emotion

  Ch3

And I think I'm gonna explode

  Ch3

There's never been an endeavor so strange

 As trying to slow the blood in my veins

 To keep my face blank

 As a stone that just sank

  Ch3

Until not a ripple remains

  Ch3

I am high above the tree line

 Sitting cross legged on the ground

 When all of the forbidden fruit

 has fallen and rotted

Ch3

That's when I'm gonna come down

 'Course numb is an old hat

 Old as my oldest memories

 See that one's my mother

 And that one's my father

  Ch3

And that one in the hat, that's me

 It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon

 When I got out on the open road

 But any more pent up emotion

  Ch3

And I think I'm gonna explode