Original Key: A# Minor
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 100
Suggested Strumming: DU,DU,DU,DU
[INTRO]
A#m .
[CHORUS]
A#m C# Ash and dust
G# F# Everything I care about and love
A#m C# Burning up (Yeah)
G# F# (Alright, turn my, uh, vocal up) Nothing left of who I thought I was
F# (And then just let it run) I was
[VERSE]
A#m Uh, I'm stuck in traffic
C# Tryna find my way to a home that I've never known on a GPS with no address
G# So I'll follow my heart, but my heart is scattered
F# Like my father's ashes in the back of the rental after I dropped his urn
A#m Probably a metaphor for everything I've learned
C# Like how the only love I'll have is gonna crash and burn
G# Or how the poorest I've felt was after the most I've earned
F# The biggest lie I told is that no one should be concerned
A#m There's gotta be another highway that don't lead to Hell
C# A star to lead me through the darkest night like Christian Bale
G# I hid from God for more than two decades of life
F# And when I came back to the light, He didn't ask me if I'm Christian still
A#m Just opened up His arms and embraced me like I'm His Son
C# Erasing all the archetypes of what people like me become
G# Since I was young, my personality split like serpent's tongue
F# But all the poison in my body still ain't make me numb
A#m I lost a best friend and felt all that
C# Crying on his open casket while I knelt on that
G# I had a best man picked out for my wedding
F# But instead of getting married, I carried guilt and left all that
A#m A vagabond that broke a bond for Boca Raton
C# Who all along regretted he never kept all that
G# F# I left everything behind but this engagement ring and a frozen heart
F# I'm standin' in the fire to melt all that, yeah
[CHORUS]
A#m C# Ash and dust
G# F# Everything I care about and love
A#m C# (Burn!) Burning up
G# F# Nothing left of who I thought I was
F# I was
[INSTRUMENTAL]
A#m C# G# F# .
[BRIDGE]
F# I, I, I was (Yeah) (Burn!)
[VERSE]
A#m Lash out
C# Need to take a breath and calm down
G# Try to regulate, don't know how
F# Wasn't taught that in my house
A#m Kids of my own, I step back
C# Look at those smiles and feel sad
G# Hope they don't wind up like Dad
F# Stuck in this loop like I am
A#m I've (Burn!)
A#m Called you, never heard back
C# After everything we been through, the good and the bad
G# You're 'bout to throw it all away and overreact
F# Because I overreacted, karma, I guess
A#m My temper gets the best of me, a part of me that
C# I wish I knew how to get rid of, it's a issue I have
G# My M.O. say I need you and I love you to death
F# Then turn around and Go and treat you like you nothing but trash, I know
A#m I know I messed that part up, but
C# G# I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
F# Yeah, I know
[OUTRO]
A#m Sometimes I lash out
C# Need to take a breath and calm down
G# Try to regulate, don't know how
F# Wasn't taught that in my house
A#m Kids of my own, I step back
C# Look at those smiles and feel sad
G# Hope they don't wind up like Dad
F# Stuck in this loop like I am, I—
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