[Verse 1]

D      Bm      G          A
I gave my hand for you to hold
D      Bm      G                 A
I gave my love that you went and sold
D             Bm         G
Exchanged our song for another
D           Bm              G
Can't blame this sad flame that once glowed like no other


[Chorus]

Em     A
How do you soften
D              Bm
The thought of carrying coffins?
Em         A
We were so alive
D       G
Only to see us wither and die


[Verse 2]

D       Bm          G                      A
You say you'd stand even if this would all fall
D                Bm      G                A
You're yearning, yielded when you hit the wall
D      Bm         G
I shut your ears, tried to make you hear my call
D            Bm         G
But you were long gone, no hope in a sunless dawn


[Chorus]

Em     A
How do you soften
D              Bm
The thought of carrying coffins?
Em         A
We were so alive
D       Bm                Em     A
Only to see us wither and die
D   Bm    Em       A
Oh, why         
D             G
must soil run dry


[Verse 3]

Bm                                      A
And I never ever thought I'd hear these words be said
D                    G
Now I lay here in an unmade bed
Bm                     A
Empty stomach's unable to be fed
D                               G
Your ego swallowed you and from there you fled
Bm     A
So far away
D              G
Could not find your way back
Bm          A
Walked down the path
D                  G
Where feet slipped through the cracks


[Bridge]

D                  Bm
Where feet slipped through the cracks
G
Could not find your way back
D                  Bm
Where feet slipped through the cracks
G
Could not find your way back


[Chorus]

Em     A
How do you soften
D              Bm
The thought of carrying coffins?
Em         A
We were so alive
D       Bm                Em     A
Only to see us wither and die
D   Bm    Em       A
Oh, why         
D             G
must soil run dry