The Contortionist Acoustic chords by Joey Cape

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

F
In a chalk dotted line
C
Draw a kid, left behind
Em
Severed limbs in harmony
Am               G
Strumming from a few good deeds
F
Carry it to survive
C
To a bed half alive
Em
Held before a dozen times
Am            G             F
Deep inside a funeral for a friend:
        C             Em   Em/G
Runs in portions like film clips
Am   G
Run, run
F

Rundown the list
C
The memoirist
      Em
Like kindling
Am          G              C
Burn, burn, burn, burn it down
             Em
I will stay inside
     F
The saved
            Am    G    C
It's a good mourning
             Em
They will incite you
       F
The doomed
    Am      G
And I will write for you

F
Of a boy, damaged goods
C
Of a bench, understood
Em
For a spell, the soul resides
Am           G
In a yellow chalk outline

F
Carry on the camel's back
Fm
Have another heart attack
C          Em
To the cure I would drive
Am                   G               F
Played that scene a hundred times to date

        C             F
Today's ambition, to relate
     Am         G          F
In a sustaining saccharine state
             C            Em
Impart the burden and get well
            Am        G        Am
It's what everyone's trying to sell

Am   Em   C   G   Em
Am   Em   C

   G         Em         F
Anything you want it to be
           C             Em  Em/G
Weigh the screenplay and revise
Am    G  F             C
Warp, warp, warp with the contortionist
   Em   Em/G      Am       G     C
So hopelessly ill-fated everyday

             Em
He will stay inside
      F
The doomed
            Am    G     C
It's a good morning to loom
             Em
They will inspire him
     F    Am         G        Am
The saved Innocently filling graves