| Cm | Gm | |
| From | morning to night I | stayed out of sight |
| Dm | F | |
| Didn't recognize I'd be | come |
| Cm | Gm | |
| No | more than alive I'd | barely survive |
| Dm | F | |
| In a word...over | run |
| Gm | Dm | |
| Won't hear a | sound from my | mouth |
| Gm | Dm | |
| I've spent too | long on the inside | out |
| Gm | Dm | |
| My skin is | cold to the human | touch |
| Gm | Dm | F | |
| This bleeding | heart's not beating | much |
| Cm | Gm | |
| I | murmured a vow of | silence and now |
| Dm | F | |
| I don't even hear when I think a | loud |
| Cm | Gm | |
| Ex | tinguished by light I | turn on the night |
| Dm | F | |
| Wear its darkness with an empty | smile |
| Ab | |
| I'm creeping back to life |
| G | |
| My | nervous system all awry |
| Ab | Bb | |
| I'm wearing the inside | out |
| Cm | Gm | |
| Look at him now, he's | paler somehow |
| Dm | F | |
| But he's coming a | round |
| Cm | Gm | |
| He's | starting to choke, it's been so | long since he spoke |
| Dm | F | |
| Well he can have the words right from my | mouth |
| Gm | Dm | |
| And with these | words I can | see |
| Gm | Dm | |
| Clear through the | clouds that covered | me |
| Gm | Dm | |
| Just give it | time then speak my | name |
| Gm | Dm | |
| Now we can | hear ourselves a | gain |
| Gm | Dm | |
| I'm holding | out for the | day |
| Gm | Dm | |
| When all these | clouds have blown | away |
| Gm | Dm | |
| I'm with you | now, can speak your | name |
| Gm | Dm | F | Bb | |
| Now we can | hear ourselves | again |