The Mask

                  D
Well, I felt the burn
                                                G
Since the day you departed and talked from the tomb
                           D
I'm still healing those wounds

And it holds me down
               G                               G
But made me a man that says, "Fuck all those rules
                   D
I will be who I choose"


[Verse 2]
               A
It's a lonely road
           Bm              G                         D
With one grip on several psalms and one grip on the gun
                  A
And it holds the rope
          D       Bm                   G
It spins me in circles and dizzies my head
                              D
Then says sleep when you're dead


[Verse 3]
 D              A
Were you ever here?
                       Bm                      G
Or just lost on the surface that at the first touch
                    D
Just evades in the dust

And it pulled me down
                   Bm                    G
And showed me my demons lined up in a sequence
            D
Forming a crowd
            A
It was so long
         Bm                              G              D
With a piece of happy home that they stripped from the bone
            A
I did not react
                 Bm                   G
I settled my grievance by crafting a mask
                     D
And I never looked back

G   D    A

[Bridge]
                   A
Tell me what you know
          Bm        A
I'm in deeper than I've ever been
               G
I will never grow
 A            Bm         A          G
While this anchor is chained to my feet
 F                 G        F
Tell me what you know
  F       Bm         D
I'm in deeper than I've ever been
G
I will never grow
             G          Bm          G
While this anchor is chained to my feet

Tell me what you know
                 Bm             D        G
I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked-
G
I will never grow
D                Bm                   D
I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked-
G
Tell me what you know
D               Bm                    D
I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked-
G
I will never grow
D                Bm                   D
I settled my grievance by crafting a mask
                     F
And I never looked back