Mahashmashana chords by Father John Misty

• Difficulty: Beginner

Intro:


G  A7  C/G  G
G  A7  C/G  G


Verse 1:

G               D
His body is the Gelson's
  C/G                 G
Her soul, the fallen star
G                         D
At midnight twice a week
she comes, she leaves
D           C/G               G
And no one’s  hassled her so far
G                 D               C/G                G
The courters have arrived in nail polish, in tailored slacks
G              D
Reformed past, all recognition
C/G                          G
Resplendent in donor class panache
           Am           D7
It's a scheme to enrich assholes
         G                 C/G
What the godhead had in mind
        Am                D7
When he hid here such revelations
D7                     D7
As only singers could describe

Chorus:

        C/G           D7
Mahashmashana, all is silent
            G             C/G
And in thе next universal dawn
             Am                   D7
Won't have to do thе corpse dance, do the corpse dance
D7                             G
Do the corpse dance with these arms

G  A7  C/G  G
G  A7  C/G  G


Verse 2:

G                           D
The one about the country’s boyfriend
        C/G                   G
That he never ever would live down
G                            D
Must not have made it to the angels
D             C/G                G
Who passed the holy Roman noses 'round
G                             D
His pale bullets found your bloodline
     C/G              G
In a midnight blue cayenne
G                           D
She is patient, the act of creation
         C/G                  G
May one day produce a happy man
 Am               D7     G             C/G
Shaken like a pawl fly obscene as a lick
           Am                   D7                  D7              D7
Love's the birthright of young people and she ain't leaving without his


Chorus:

        C/G           D7
Mahashmashana, all is silent now
            G             C/G
And in thе next universal dawn
             Am                   D7
Won't have to do thе corpse dance, do the corpse dance
D7                             G
Do the corpse dance with these arms

G  A7  C/G  G
G  A7  C/G  G


Verse 3:

G                 D
He spoke into a hot mic
C/G             G
He sang like a bird
G                      D
He hadn't had a single drink yet
D          C/G                G
There's no mistaking what you heard
G                       D
A perfect lie can live forever
     C/G                G
The truth don't fare as well
            G                D
It isn’t perched on lips mid-laughter
            C/G                G
It ain’t the kind of thing you tell
                 Am           D7                      G              C/G
Like there's no baby in the king cake like there’s no figure on the cross
           Am                D7         D7                D7
They have gone the way of all flesh and what was found is lost


Outro:

        C/G         D7
Yes, it is. Yes, it is
        G           C/G
Yes, it is. Yes, it is
        Am          D7
Yes, it is. Yes, it is
        G           C/G
Yes, it is. Yes, it is


Am   D7   G   C/G

(Repeat into the void.)