A Song For The Optimists

[Intro]
C5          Ab5          C5       Bb5 Ab5 G5
Blow the last candle out. Let the wax harden
C5              Ab5
I wish I could stop crying.
C5              Bb5  Ab5        G5
And I wish that someone still loved me
 
[Verse 1]
C5            D5          Bb5          Eb5 D5 Eb5 C5
Blow the last candle out. Let the wax harden
C5         D5       Eb5
I wish I could stop crying.
Bb/Eb5
And I wish that someone still loved me
 
C5              Eb5
Just breathe and focus.
   Ab5      F5                C5       Eb5
How can I when the air is so cold and empty,
 Gb5          Ab5               C5
That my lungs froze right in my chest.
 
[Verse 2]
        Eb5           Ab5                Bb5               C5       Eb5
I'll be honest the silver linings are getting harder and harder to manufacture
        Ab5           Bb5          Cm
And the smiles are so difficult to fake.
 
Cm          G         D#      F   Cm           G        D#   F           Cm
I'll be honest the silver linings are getting harder and harder to manufacture
             G    D#  F    Cm           G          D#   F
And the smiles are becoming so difficult for me to fake.
 
Ab5 B5
 
[Verse 3]
C5                 B5          Eb5  D5     C5                 B5          Eb5 D5
What do I have to do, or who do I have to kill, to get what I want. What I need
C5                 B5          Eb5  D5     C5                 B5          Eb5 D5
What do I have to do, or who do I have to kill, to get what I want. What I need
C5      Ab5      Eb5          Bb5                   C5       Ab5          Bb5
Happiness is an emotion I was born to this world without, nothing pleases me.
                       C5
And I can never be satiated.
                Ab5     Eb5             Bb5           C5    Ab5     Bb5
Through this toil I will breed my own distress and destroy my best hopes,
                          C5
Fuck up the only things that I love.
 
[Interlude]
C5
C5 Eb5 Ab5 Bb5 x4
(I watched my dreams die)
 
[Bridge]
C5           Eb5         Ab5            Bb5
I watched my aspirations crash into the ground
C5      Eb5          Ab5             Bb5
On the backs of the angels that I've slain
C5    Eb5         Ab5
But I meant so well;
  Bb5         C5
I tried so hard;
           Eb5        Ab5
Gave every bit of my soul;
Bb5         Ab5
To what end?
Bb5
To what end?
 
[Instrumental]
 
C5   D5   Eb5   G5 Ab5 B5 Ab5 G5 
C5   D5   Eb5   Bb5 Ab5 B5 
C5   D5   Eb5   G5 Ab5 B5 Ab5 G5 
 
C5   D5   Eb5   Bb5 Ab5 B5 
(x2)

Eb5   F5 G5  Eb5  F5 G5  Eb5  D5  Eb5 F5 D5   
Eb5   F5 G5  Eb5  F5 G5  Eb5  D5  Eb5 F5 D5  
 
[Outro]
Eb5  F5 G5  Eb5 F5 G5  Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away
Eb5  F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5  Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away
Eb5  F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5  Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away