Atreyu - A Song For The Optimists

[Intro]
C5 Ab5 C5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
Blow the last candle out. Let the wax harden
C5 Ab5
I wish I could stop crying.
C5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
And I wish that someone still loved me

[Verse 1]
C5 D5 Bb5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 C5
Blow the last candle out. Let the wax harden
C5 D5 Eb5
I wish I could stop crying.
Bb/Eb5
And I wish that someone still loved me

C5 Eb5
Just breathe and focus.
Ab5 F5 C5 Eb5
How can I when the air is so cold and empty,
Gb5 Ab5 C5
That my lungs froze right in my chest.

[Verse 2]
Eb5 Ab5 Bb5 C5 Eb5
I’ll be honest the silver linings are getting harder and harder to manufacture
Ab5 Bb5 Cm
And the smiles are so difficult to fake.

Cm G D# F Cm G D# F Cm
I’ll be honest the silver linings are getting harder and harder to manufacture
G D# F Cm G D# F
And the smiles are becoming so difficult for me to fake.

Ab5 B5

[Verse 3]
C5 B5 Eb5 D5 C5 B5 Eb5 D5
What do I have to do, or who do I have to kill, to get what I want. What I need
C5 B5 Eb5 D5 C5 B5 Eb5 D5
What do I have to do, or who do I have to kill, to get what I want. What I need
C5 Ab5 Eb5 Bb5 C5 Ab5 Bb5
Happiness is an emotion I was born to this world without, nothing pleases me.
C5
And I can never be satiated.
Ab5 Eb5 Bb5 C5 Ab5 Bb5
Through this toil I will breed my own distress and destroy my best hopes,
C5
Fuck up the only things that I love.

[Interlude]
C5
C5 Eb5 Ab5 Bb5 x4
(I watched my dreams die)

[Bridge]
C5 Eb5 Ab5 Bb5
I watched my aspirations crash into the ground
C5 Eb5 Ab5 Bb5
On the backs of the angels that I’ve slain
C5 Eb5 Ab5
But I meant so well;
Bb5 C5
I tried so hard;
Eb5 Ab5
Gave every bit of my soul;
Bb5 Ab5
To what end?
Bb5
To what end?

[Instrumental]

C5 D5 Eb5 G5 Ab5 B5 Ab5 G5
C5 D5 Eb5 Bb5 Ab5 B5
C5 D5 Eb5 G5 Ab5 B5 Ab5 G5

C5 D5 Eb5 Bb5 Ab5 B5
(x2)

Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5
Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5

[Outro]
Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away
Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away
Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 F5 G5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 F5 D5
Desolation, desire, exhale, pass away