Bees chords by Jared Mees And The Grown Children

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
          G                 C
Send us a signal, give us a sign
                C          D
The needle's on empty, but she swore everything would be fine
            G                             C
But it's on fire, and there's bees in the walls
        C                                   D               G
They're buzzing so loud that I swear I miss every one of my calls

              G                 C
So do it with smoke, do it with light
         C                      D                             G
But whatever you do, just make sure that it's strong and it's bright
                        G
Cause it feels like the end
      C
But I now and then overreact
             Cm                         D                       G
They've been saying that since way back when the moon turned to blood and made rivers all over your back now

Verse 2:
                  G               Em           C
This whole world conviction and a lifetime of wonder
              G                  Em              C
The creeping suspicion that it's all soon going under
               G                  Em             C
Bought all my sandals from that landslide in the small town
                 G               Em                   C
The wax from the candle's on the strap of her costume ballgown
                      G                              C
It comes through the windows just like radiation, it penetrates like a saber
    G                                      D/F#
And according to all my calculations, the sickness will descend in even gradations,
Em
defying the preacher's evaluations
C             D           G
Now is always better than later


Verse 3:
           G                C
Go get the door, send them away
        C                      D                         G
This is not a good time and it doesn't look like a good day
                         G                         C
Cause the house has the odds, they're a hundred to one
                 C                            D                      G
That you will decay in your tracks and go blind as you stare at the sun
                 G                          C
Just making it's rounds and increasing the dread
          C                          D                       G
That each morning you leave slightly more of yourself in the bed

                G           C
But the radio's on and it's turning my heart into gold
        Cm                  D                      G
And the guilt I once had is gone, it's replaced by a fear dying before I get old now


Verse 4:
                 G               Em                   C
The scent of the decay will stay with you all of your life
                 G                    Em                 C
The way that the blood still, decades later, stains your pen knife
         G                  Em           C
It's 10:59 according to the clock at the station
           G               Em                 C
Oh, what a perfect time to begin making accusations
             G                                        C
It's easy to forget, but it's tough to lose, like the color of your complexion
             G                                 D/F#
Blends in so nicely with purples and blues and most of the time it's disguised as a bruise
          Em
It sleeps under the skin as the good life accrues

   C                     D                        G
If breathing's the error, it's the simplest correction
             C                    D                         G
Oh, cause if breathing's the error, it's the simplest correction