Atrophy chords by The Antlers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: B minorBm

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
B minorBm D MajorD G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m
(step down for just one beat every time)

Verse 1:
      B minorBm          D MajorD
You've been living awhile in the front of my skull
    G+G    D MajorD F# minorF#m
Making orders
      B minorBm         D MajorD
You've been writing me rules, shrinking maps
       G+G    D MajorD F# minorF#m
And redrawing borders
      B minorBm
I've been repeating your speeches
     D MajorD          G+G    D MajorD F# minorF#m
But the audience just doesn't follow
      B minorBm            D MajorD
Because I'm leaving out words, punctuation
           G+G   D MajorD F# minorF#m
And it sounds pretty hollow
      B minorBm       D MajorD
I've been living in bed because now
         G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m
You tell me to sleep
     B minorBm           D MajorD
I've been hiding my voice and my face
           G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m
And you decide when I eat
     B minorBm
In your dreams I'm a criminal
 D MajorD         G+G    D MajorD F# minorF#m
Horrible, sleeping around
       B minorBm
While you're awake I'm impossible
D MajorD           G+G  D MajorD F# minorF#m
Constantly letting you down


Verse 2:
    B minorBm
Little porcelain figurines
   D MajorD            G+G  D MajorD F# minorF#m
Glass bullets you shoot at the wall
      B minorBm
Threats of castration for crimes
  D MajorD            G+G   D MajorD F# minorF#m
You imagine when I miss your call
     B minorBm            D MajorD
With the bite of the teeth of that ring on my finger
  G+G              D MajorD   F# minorF#m
I'm bound to your bedside, your eulogy singer
  B minorBm           D MajorD
I'd happily take all those bullets inside you
  G+G           D MajorD  F# minorF#m
And put them inside of myself


Interlude:
E minorEm D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA


Verse 3:
E minorEm      D MajorD
Someone, oh anyone
 B minorBm       A augmentedA
Tell me how to stop this
    E minorEm     D MajorD
She's screaming, expiring
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
And I'm her only witness
   E minorEm     D MajorD
I'm freezing, infected
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
And rigid in that room inside her
  E minorEm      D MajorD       B minorBm       A augmentedA
No one's gonna come as long as I lay still in bed beside her