Tone: [Em]
Verse:
[Em]What are the words that I'm [D]supposed to say?
[Bm]Your white skin, swirling firef[C]fireflies.
[Em]Darkness has surrounded Balt[D]Baltimore bay.
[Bm]Why don't you open your blue [C]eyes?
[Em]Are they things that water can't [D]wash away?
[G]How can your absence leave no t[C]trace?
[Em]As I let you sink in Balti[D]Baltimore bay.
[G]I drown myself deep in dis[C]disgrace.
Verse:
[Em]What is the price, am I suppos[D]supposed to pay?
[G]For all the things I try to h[C]hide?
[Em]What is my fate, am I suppos[D]supposed to pray?
[G]That trouble's gone with the sunl[C]sunlight?
Interlude -x2-:
[Em] [D] [G] [C]
Verse:
[Gbm]A warm sun rises and ignites the[E]the bay.
[A]I come back home and start to [D]cry
[Gbm]I'll never come back to Balt[E]Baltimore bay.
[A]Try to forget the firef[D]fireflies.
[Gbm]What are the words that I'm supp[E]supposed to say?
[A]If someone knew about this [D]lie?
[Gbm]If your body rises to the [E]surface?
[A]Through the silence of fire[D]fireflies