By the Throat Lyrics

Key: E (standard tuning)
chords used
Verse: C#m, B, E, A, C#m, B, E (2 measures)
Bridge: A, B, C#m, Ebm
Chorus: E, B, A, B
Verse:
Feel, don't watch the mercury drop
Things fell apart and then I turned and stopped and said
I can't go on anymore like this
Save me from the tired hums
The crooked stares of the broken ones
One by one, let's watch them all disappear
I used to climb up to the attic at night
I'd end up in the basement screaming
I'm floating above all of you now
little riff
Bridge:
It feels like now they've got me by the throat
Chorus:
You make it sound so sincere
I never believe what I always hear
Chorus: x3
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now
So I packed what's left of me and I'm leaving
These city walls are closing in on me
Verse:
Take me back before it all began
Before I'd run and before I cared
Sometimes my best just isn't enough
little riff number 2 (basically the same thing with a little lick at the end)
Bridge:
It feels like now they've got me by the throat
Chorus: x4
You make it sound so sincere
I never believe what I always hear
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia just spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now
Palm mute: E
-: measures played %: pause
Break: E--A, E--B, E-%A
E AE BE A B }x2
They've got me by the throat }
Verse:
All of the things that I've left behind
Have washed out to sea and soon comes
The day that a hard rain falls on me