Ab                                       Bbm
Dark auditorium, half of the audience sleeps
      Ab                   Bbm                        Ab
I am awake through every display of doubt turning the grave

[Pre-Chorus]
               Gb   Ab                   Bbm Ab
While you were watching the back of your eyelids
     Bbm Fm Eb
I was awake

[Verse 2]
Ab
Broken and battered and split like an atom
   Bbm                          Ab
In debt to god, but what's it to you
                 Bbm
If somewhere a glass jewel breaks
                Ab
And rings like a bell

[Pre-Chorus]
                  Gb   Ab                 Bbm  Ab
Are you bandaging feet or done with the Peace Corps?
          Bbm Fm Eb
I couldn't tell

[Chorus]
        Ab
Now I'm putting drinks away
        Ab
Like a poet on payday
        Gb
And I'm not toasting your name
         E
Or your good health

[Verse 3]
      Ab
When twenty years of peace
               Bbm
Fall under the roof of love
               Ab
And every heart seems
               Bbm
To beat like a broken drum

[Chorus]
        Ab
Now I'm putting drinks away
        Ab
Like a poet on payday
        Gb
And I'm not toasting your name
             Ab
Or your good health

[Outro]
                         Db
They say the thing about starts
                        Ab
Is you're risking them finishing
              Db
And a line of love
                   Ab
Draws maps on your skin

                              Db
Well, that's the thing about shoes
                    Ab
You know some of us live in them
                       Db
When it's too late to want love
                    Ab
I'll know where I've been

                         Db
They say the thing about starts
                        Ab
Is they're made out of finishes
                 Db
And a longing of love
                   Ab
Draws maps on your skin

                              Db
Well, that's the thing about shoes
                            Ab
You know some of us live in them
                       Db
When it's too late to want love
                    Ab
I'll know where I've been
                     Bbm   Fm   Ab      Bbm   Fm   Ab
I'll know where I've been