A    C
Dear diary
G                              E
This battle’s on the verge of emergency
           G       E               G
Call in a chemical warfare attack

G C E x2  C E G D

[verse 1]
E                      G              A           E
Tempting fate with the crisis that my vices will orchestrate
            G     D           E
Cold sweats as my bold pupils dilate
        C
I could die from the weight of it all
C                                   G       C
Or make it through another close call


C                       G                D
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
                    E                        C
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
                        G                D
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
         D#m         E                 C               E
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”

E G E G D

[verse 2]
E                       G                A            E
Through blackened veins the evil in the needle bleeds into my brain
  G                 D           E
And sells me on the sense of a fool’s escape
        C
I could die from the weight of it all
C                  E       C
Or make it through another close call


C                       G                D
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
                    E                        C
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
                        G                D
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
         D#m         E                 C               E
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”
C                  E
Before you walk away

[bridge]
C                        E
But I just need one more taste, one more taste
C                                   E
Scars earned from searching for solutions
G   D        C
So desperate just to feel
                    E              D               A
Sold on self-prescribed pollution, just distorting what was real
                                       G          C
And so it goes in the throes of what I can’t overcome
           D#m
Painfully numb
C
Dear diary
                                     G
This battle’s on the verge of emergency


G        C            G                  D
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
               E                             C
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
                      G                 D
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
       D#m         E                C
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”

[outro]
C
Before you walk away
C
Before you walk away