(Sorry the chord changes don’t line up with the words properly. Just change
chords when it feels like you should.)
–CAPO 1–
Intro Bassline:
Em C
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Verse 1:
G D C
At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas
You pray to nothing out loud
G Em C
Two first names and an ampersand embroidered proudly on a kitchen towel
G D C D
You’re a beautiful and violent work with the skinny neck of a Chinese bird
G D
in a fading ancient painting.
Em C G
And if you’re in heaven waiting you made it there fighting
D C D
the tightest kite string in a bad storm with lightning.
Chorus:
Em G C/E Em/G
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket
C Em/B D C G/B D
can persuade no god to let me let you talk.
Em G C/E Em/G
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket
C G/B D C G/B D
can persuade no god to let me let you off.
G D
Even though I haven’t seen you in years
C D Em D C
yours is a funeral I’d fly to from anywhere.
Verse 2:
G D
I thought I had a pebble in my sock
Em C
I pulled it off and shook out a wasp
G D
It stumbled out lost and without a pause
Em C
unstung as I was, still I stomped it.
Em C
I thought “There is no paved street worthy
Em C
of your perfect Scandinavian feet.”
Em C
My crooked chinese fingers groped
Em C D
the machinery of your throat.
Em
Repeat Chorus, end on “anywhere.”
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