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C riff:
e|-------------
B|-1-0-1-3-1-0-         The chords for this are C Cmaj7 C Csus2 C Cmaj7, 
G|-0-0-0-0-0-0-         though he plays around with it as the song goes on.
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-   x2
A|-3-3-3-3-3-3-
E|-------------

Em riff:                       Em riff 2:
e|-0----------                 e|-0-----------   
e|-0----------                 B|-0---0---0---     
G|-0----------                 G|-0-0---0---0- 
D|-0-2-2-0-h2-    x2           D|-2-----------     x2
A|-0-2-2-0-h2-                 A|-2-----------   
E|-0----------                 E|-0-----------  

D riff:
e|-3-2-3-2-3-2-
B|-3-3-3-3-3-3-
G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-
D|-0-0-0-0-0-0-   x2
A|-------------   
E|-------------   

C riff Em riff

         C riff
Into the source of a squall
    Em riff
I inevitably fall
           C riff
Toward the well-spring of all agony
          Em riff
Shuffling endlessly
                      C riff
Whether or not it was always going to be this way
                 Em riff (just once)
It only mattered yesterday

Bm      Em                Bm      Em
No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in

            C riff
Up from the earth and the clay
Em riff 2
Melting away
                     C riff
Never lose enough to find my form
Em riff 2
Trudge through the storm
C riff
Wait in hope
                     Em riff 2 (just once)
For some as yet undiscovered isotope

No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in

D riff
When at last
Em riff 2
The die gets cast
         D riff
Read the numbers out loud
          Am & Asus2
With your head bowed
                      C riff
Try to find a face to focus on
        Em
But the memory’s gone
            C riff
Wherever my former self went
          Em
It was an accident
                      Am
Try to picture him in my mind’s eye
F
Say goodbye

No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in