Atrophy chords by The Antlers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Bm

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
Bm D G D F#m
(step down for just one beat every time)

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

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


Interlude:
Em D Bm A


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