The Raw And Searing Flesh chords by Lawrence Arms

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Intermediate

E minorEm - 022000
D MajorD - xx0232
Cmaj7Cmaj7 - x32000
C majorC - x32010
B minorBm - x24432
G+G - 320033
G/F# - 200033

Verse:

  E minorEm      D MajorD
I never want to see you
Cmaj7Cmaj7          B minorBm  A5A5
In the raw and searing flesh
     E minorEm      D MajorD
I don't ever want to hear you
Cmaj7Cmaj7         G+G  G/F#
Singing softly to the dead
  E minorEm      D MajorD
I never want to feel your skin
Cmaj7Cmaj7       B minorBm   A5A5
Running warm along my side
     E minorEm      D MajorD
I don't ever want to sink that way again
Cmaj7Cmaj7         G+G  G/F#
It would be easier to die
  E minorEm  Cmaj7Cmaj7 E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7
To die

Verse:

   E minorEm             D MajorD
I'm tending the pyres of my frustrations
Cmaj7Cmaj7
Burning leaves on buried dreams
B minorBm       A5A5
Kneeling in to rake the ashes
E minorEm               D MajorD
I'm embering. You're smoldered out.
                 C majorC
My hands are free, my lungs are proud
     G+G       G/F#  C majorC
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction
     G+G       G/F#  C majorC
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction

Chorus:

    G+G      D MajorD      E minorEm
These flames have never burned so high
G+G      D MajorD     C majorC
I won't be staring in your eyes

Interlude:

E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 (x2)

Bridge:

   E minorEm          D MajorD
I'm trying hard not to remember
Cmaj7Cmaj7                B minorBm  A5A5
The way the smoke drifts through the air
   E minorEm         D MajorD
We'll all be dead come November
Cmaj7Cmaj7           G+G   G/F#
Four months out of every year
    E minorEm
Every year
    Cmaj7Cmaj7
(Every year)
    E minorEm
Every year
    Cmaj7Cmaj7
(Every year)

Chorus:

E minorEm     D MajorD     Cmaj7Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes
E minorEm     D MajorD     Cmaj7Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes
E minorEm D MajorD   Cmaj7Cmaj7
.......In your eyes
E minorEm D MajorD   Cmaj7Cmaj7
.......In your eyes
  E minorEm   D MajorD   Cmaj7Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)
  E minorEm   D MajorD   Cmaj7Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)

Outro:

E minorEm D MajorD Cmaj7Cmaj7 (x3)