Standard (EADGBE)

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Verse 1

Late night brakes lock

 hear the tires squeal

Red light can't stop

 so I spin the wheel

My world goes black before

 I feel an angel lift me up

 And I open bloodshot

eyes into fluorescent white

 They flip the siren hit the lights

close the doors and I am gone

Guitar solo

 Dustin: --------

x2 x2

Verse 2

 Now I lay here owing my

 life to a stranger

 And I realize that empty

words are not enough

 I'm left here with

the question of just

What have I to show except

 the promises I never kept?

 I lie here shaking on this bed

 under the weight of my regrets

Chorus 1

 I hope that I will

 never let you down

 I know that this-- can be more

 than just flashing

lights and sound

Guitar solo

Dustin: Fm--C#--G#--Eb--

x2 x2

Verse 2

Look around and

you'll see that at

 times it feels like

no one really cares

It gets me down

but I'm still

 gonna try to do

what's right I know that

 there's A difference between sleight

 of hand and giving everything you have

There's a line drawn in the sand

 I'm working up the will to cross it and

Chorus 2

 I hope that I will

 never let you down

 I know that this can be more

 than just flashing

---

lights and sound

Bridge

Rhetoric can't raise the dead

 I'm sick of always talking

when there's no change

Rhetoric can't raise the dead

 I'm sick of empty words

let's lead and not follow

Verse 3

Late night brakes lock

 hear the tires squeal

Red light can't stop

 so I spin the wheel

My world goes black before I

feel an angel steal me from the

Greedy jaws of death and chance

 and pull me in with steady hands

 They've given me a second chance

 the artist in the ambulance

Chorus 3

 I hope that I will

 never let you down

 I know that this can be more

 than just flashing

lights and sound

 Can we pick you off the ground

  --- (hold)

more than flashing lights and sound