The Silence

Manchester Orchestra

• EmiDAEmiEmiDAEmi
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• DEmiAEmiEmiDAEmiDEmiAEmiDEmiAEmi
  S1:
  Why do I deserve the science? 

  To feel better about you? 

  At a loss, I lost my cool 

  I denied that I found you 

  I tried to be a basket case 

  I did not surprise you 

  I'm trying to find a signal fire 

  Let me know when I should move
• GDAEmiDEmiAEmiGAEmi
  R1:
  But you, amplified in the silence 

  Justified in the way you make me bruise 

  Magnified in the science 

  Anatomically proved that you don't need me
• EmiDAEmiEmiDAEmi
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• DEmiAEmiEmiDAEmiDEmiAEmiEmiDAEmi
  S2:
  Why do I desire the space? 

  I was mourning after you 

  I was lost and lost my shape 

  There was nothing I could do 

  I don't want to waste away 

  It was all I gave to you 

  Take me back and take my place 

  I will rise right up for you
• GDAEmiDEmiAEmiGAEmi
  R1:
  But you, amplified in the silence 

  Justified in the way you make me bruise 

  Magnified in the science 

  Anatomically proved that you don't need me
• AEmiDGGmaj7/F♯EmiADGNC
  B1:
  All the while you waste away, you're asking 

  "Did I really need another one to take me down?"  

  Everybody knows it's something that you had to live with, darling 

  Nobody's gonna tear you down now 

  There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection
• EmiDAEmiEmiDAEmi
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  There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection 

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• EmiDAEmiEmiDEmiAEmiAEmiDEmiAEmiD
  B2:
  There was nothing but quiet retractions 

  And families pleading, "Don't look in that cabinet 

  There's far more bad than there's good, I don't know how it got there" 

  That was something your father had burned in me 

  Twenty hours out of Homestake eternity 

  "You can go anywhere but you are where you came from" 

  Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry 

  There is nothing but darkness and agony 

  I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking 

  Let me watch you as close as a memory, let me hold you 

  Above all the misery, let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here
• DAEmiEmiEmiDAEmi
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• DAEmiEmiEmiDAEmi
  D2:
  Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry 

  There is nothing but darkness and agony 

  I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking 

  Let me watch you as close as a memory, let me hold you 

  Above all the misery, let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here