Standard tuning The picking pattern varies a bit throughout the song, but here is the main idea. The in the chords below signifies the root note transition, not the actual chord (which would be a if you decided to play it out). Main picking pattern: e|--------0----------------0----------------------------------------------------| B|-(1)--------1---1----------------0--------1-------1--------1------------------| G|----0---------0------0-------0--------2-------2--------2-------2---0----------| D|------2---2------------2-------2--------2---2---2--------2--------------------| A|--3----------------2-------2--------0----------------0-------0---2------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I'm not sure how these marks came to be on my heart in your bed as I slept with the devil had a brawl when I awoke prayed to god it had been but a draw oh my what more of a mess I will be if I've lost Interlude picking pattern: e|-------------------------3---0------------0----------------------------------| B|-(1)----3-------1----------------0------------1------------1-----------------| G|----0-------0--------0----------------2-----------2----2-------2---0---------| D|------2-------2--------2-------2--------2---2---2--------2-------------------| A|--3-------3--------2-------2--------0----------------0-------0---------------| E|-----------------------------------------------------------------3-----------| now I dream of the sky running towards me, liquid like an ocean my little brother is there and I carry him like a newborn it seems I'm always lifting him to escape from rabid beasts and storms behind my eyelids he is light - he's the weight of a quarter but in daylight he is broad and older oh lord, call me back, back to you I will come, seal my soul like an envelope, use your spit lick it shut bring your knives, use your tools, perform open heart the water is scalding, so cold that it burns but when I lay in your likeness how you slay all my hurt ) all my hurt, all my hurt

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