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Safety In Numbness

Paul Dempsey
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
  Cbar /
e|---X----2-----0---0---------------0----3----3------3--------------|
B|---5----3-----1---2---------------0----3----3------3--------------|
G|---5----2-----0---2----7----9-----0----0----0------0--------------|
D|---5----0-----2---2----5----7-----2----0----2------0--------------|
A|---3----0-----3---0----5----7-----2----2----3------0--------------|
E|---X----2-----0---0---------------0----3----X------2--------------|
Got  glue in your feathers
What  brought you to this?
A  flightless bird surrounded by
Red  handed kids
  Cbar
 In their borrowed black sheep's clothes
Now  everybody's in  on  the  joke
So  practice your boredom
Look  a thousand times removed
Cause  only a freak would sing
In  a crowded waiting room
  Cbar /
 They would turn you out in the cold
Because  everybody's in  on the joke
Are  you missing a stranger
That  you might have loved?
Do  you feel that there's something
You  don't feel  enough?
There's  a perfectly good poison
 For the perfectly  numb
If  you want some
 But naming the feeling
 It just, it kills the charade
 And if flowers should bloom
 Upon your wallpaper face
 It will follow you everywhere you go
 Because everybody's in on the joke
 Desire only burns
 And envy's always green
 A mind can only race
 And a heart, it can only beat
 There's these towering neon signs
 We must uphold
 To keep out the blackness
 And run with the blue
 Now only a fool would sing
 As if he's telling the truth
 Could you swallow down
 That lump in your throat?
 Because everybody's in on the joke
 Are you missing a stranger
 That you might have loved?
 Do you feel that there's something
 You don't feel enough?
 There's a perfectly good poison....
 Are you missing a stranger
 That you might have loved?
 Do you feel that there's something
 You don't feel enough?
 There's a perfectly good poison....

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Readable chord sheet for Safety In Numbness by Paul Dempsey

Cbar [D]/[A]  [C]   [A]  [Dsus4] [Esus4] [Em]    [G]  [Cadd9]  [Gsus2]

e|---X----2-----0---0---------------0----3----3------3--------------|
B|---5----3-----1---2---------------0----3----3------3--------------|
G|---5----2-----0---2----7----9-----0----0----0------0--------------|
D|---5----0-----2---2----5----7-----2----0----2------0--------------|
A|---3----0-----3---0----5----7-----2----2----3------0--------------|
E|---X----2-----0---0---------------0----3----X------2--------------|

[Em]Got glue in your feathers
[D]Wh[A]at brought you to this?
[C]A flightless bird surrounded by
[A]Red handed kids
         Cbar     [D]      [C]      [Em]    [C]
In their borrowed black sheep's clothes
[C]Now everybody's in[D] o[A]n t[G]he j[Gsus2]oke

[Em]So practice your boredom
[D]Lo[A]ok a thousand times removed
[C]Cause only a freak would sing
[A]In a crowded waiting room
           Cbar   [D]/[A]   [C]   [Em] [C]
They would turn you out in the cold
[C]Because everybody's i[D]n on the j[G]oke [Gsus2]

[C]Are you missing a stranger
[D]Th[A]at you might have l[G]oved?[Gsus2]
[C]Do you feel that there's something
[D]Yo[A]u don't f[G]eel en[Gsus2]ough?
[C]There's a perfectly good poi[D]son
For the [Dsus4]perfec[Esus4]tly nu[Dsus4]mb     [C]
[C]If you want some

But naming the feeling
It just, it kills the charade
And if flowers should bloom
Upon your wallpaper face
It will follow you everywhere you go
Because everybody's in on the joke

Desire only burns
And envy's always green
A mind can only race
And a heart, it can only beat
There's these towering neon signs
We must uphold
To keep out the blackness
And run with the blue
Now only a fool would sing
As if he's telling the truth
Could you swallow down
That lump in your throat?
Because everybody's in on the joke

Are you missing a stranger
That you might have loved?
Do you feel that there's something
You don't feel enough?
There's a perfectly good poison....

Are you missing a stranger
That you might have loved?
Do you feel that there's something
You don't feel enough?
There's a perfectly good poison....

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