The Raw And Searing Flesh chords by Lawrence Arms

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
• Key: G

Difficulty: Intermediate

Em - 022000
D - xx0232
Cmaj7 - x32000
C - x32010
Bm - x24432
G - 320033
G/F# - 200033

Verse:

   Em            D
I never want to see you
Cmaj7                   Bm    A5
In the raw and searing flesh
         Em           D
I don't ever want to hear you
Cmaj7                  G    G/F#
Singing softly to the dead
   Em            D
I never want to feel your skin
Cmaj7              Bm     A5
Running warm along my side
         Em           D
I don't ever want to sink that way again
Cmaj7                  G   G/F#
It would be easier to die
    Em   Cmaj7  Em  Cmaj7
To die

Verse:

     Em                         D
I'm tending the pyres of my frustrations
Cmaj7
Burning leaves on buried dreams
Bm              A5
Kneeling in to rake the ashes
Em                              D
I'm embering. You're smoldered out.
                                 C
My hands are free, my lungs are proud
         G             G/F#   C
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction
         G             G/F#   C
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction

Chorus:

       G           D           Em
These flames have never burned so high
G           D          C
I won't be staring in your eyes

Interlude:

Em Cmaj7 (x2)

Bridge:

     Em                   D
I'm trying hard not to remember
Cmaj7                                Bm   A5
The way the smoke drifts through the air
      Em                  D
We'll all be dead come November
Cmaj7                     G     G/F#
Four months out of every year
       Em
Every year
       Cmaj7
(Every year)
       Em
Every year
       Cmaj7
(Every year)

Chorus:

Em          D          Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes
Em          D          Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes
Em  D      Cmaj7
.......In your eyes
Em  D      Cmaj7
.......In your eyes
   Em     D     Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)
   Em     D     Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)

Outro:

Em D Cmaj7 (x3)