Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse 1:
E MajorE
How many a moon will it take
G#G# A augmentedA
To make a forever lover of a stranger?
F# minorF#m
And if I were to win for you the skin
Of a timbered snake
E MajorE
Would you consider me your comfort in danger?
F# minorF#m
You could drape it over your jewelry
E MajorE
You could wear me like a ring
F minorFm F# minorF#m
You'd be the mercy under my cruelty
B7B7
My revelation bloodshed free
Chorus:
B minorBm A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Do you wanna get married
E MajorE G#G#
At the Cherokee Cemetery?
A augmentedA
Where the blue grass creeps over deep
F# minorF#m
Decades of devotion
A augmentedA E MajorE
Warm underneath the frost
Post-Chorus:
F# minorF#m
We can build a home in a bush of azaleas
E MajorE G#G#
Dress it up in true morale paraphernalia
A augmentedA C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
You'll never bee alone in your bad dreams
E MajorE
Because together we could never be lost
Verse 2:
I got a weird relationship
G#G# A augmentedA
With everyone that I know
F# minorF#m
And I'm dry heaving half minded ideas
Into a black abyss
E MajorE
Sometimes I feel so empty and low
C#C# F# minorF#m
But your eyes prescribe a meaning
E MajorE
For everything I do
FF F# minorF#m
I even find myself believing
BB
Most of the words I say as true
Chorus:
B minorBm A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Do you wanna get married
E MajorE G#G#
At the Cherokee Cemetery?
A augmentedA
Where the blue grass creeps over deep
F# minorF#m
Decades of devotion
A augmentedA E MajorE
Warm underneath the frost
Post-Chorus:
F# minorF#m
We can build a home in a bush of azaleas
E MajorE G#G#
Dress it up in true morale paraphernalia
A augmentedA C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
You'll never bee alone in your bad dreams
(Bad dreams, you never get away)
E MajorE
Because together we could never be lost
Bridge:
FF F#M
We can be defined by the things we want
E MajorE
I'll be a life full of free haircuts from the one that I love
C#C# F# minorF#m
We'll collect fallen out teeth in a candy jar
E MajorE
Mice for the backyard peregrine falcon reservation
Outro:
A augmentedA
Drive to the sea
Set them all free
Teach a little baby to pray to her favourite star
BB A augmentedA
Coo - ca - choo
Mama loves you
Welcome to the world
E MajorE A augmentedA
Wonderfully bizarre