[Verse 1]
Stained glass sunrise on a dive bar floor
Last night’s saints
Bent halos on the door
Ash in my coffee
Lipstick on the rim
I play a crooked scale
And watch the room grow dim
[Chorus]
It’s a chromatic breakdown
Sliding through the pain
Every blue note bleeding
Rust into the rain
I keep falling off the changes
Chasing what I lack
Yeah
My heart swings forward
As the world leans back (oh yeah)
[Verse 2]
Bartender’s sermon
Served in a chipped old glass
He says
“Kid
Your future’s
Hidden in your past”
I bend another string
Make that chord confess
Turn my bad decisions
Into one more restless yes
[Chorus]
It’s a chromatic breakdown
Sliding through the pain
Every blue note bleeding
Rust into the rain
I keep falling off the changes
Chasing what I lack
Yeah
My heart swings forward
As the world leans back
[Bridge]
[Band drops to a smoky half-time swing]
I count to seven
But my pulse hits five
I’m out of alignment
But I feel alive (hey!)
If wrong is where the right notes go to hide
Then let this broken rhythm
Be my guide
[Chorus]
It’s a chromatic breakdown
Sliding through the pain
Every blue note bleeding
Rust into the rain
I keep falling off the changes
But I won’t fade to black
Yeah
My heart swings forward
’til the world swings back