Taxidermist Taxidermist chords by Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F#m

Difficulty: Novice

HINT:
Make sure to slow down during the choruses,
and feel free to refer to Ad*Astra's tab
to help out on the extra chord patterns

Intro:
Em  A7  Em  A*
Em**A7  Em  A**

Verse 1:
Em    A7     Em    A7
Dislocation, pushy persuasion
Em           A7    Em       A7
Ligament and bone, ligament and bone
Em       A7       Em    A7
Crystal structures, defects and blunders
Em     A7    Em      A7
Once turning all my mineral to
Em  A7   Em    A7
 stone, stone, stone

Pre-Chorus:
Em* Dsus4    G*     Em* Dsus4 G*
And so I reintroduce me to myself
Em* Dsus4   G*
"How do you do?" I say, "I've(...)
 Em*   Dsus4      G*
heard such lovely things about
Em* Dsus4  G*   Em* Dsus4    G*
Who you are and where you've been but
Em* Dsus4 G*       Em*  Dsus4    G*
be in me again, yes back in me again."

Refrain:
Em C G F#

Em   C       G            F#
  Will, oh will, oh wilderness, my wilderness
Em   C       G     F#
  Dark and ambiguous, will you tangle me in?
Em   C       G        F#
  Lie, oh lie, oh lioness, my lioness
Em   C       G     F#
  Sharp and ambivalent, won't you lie on my skins?
Em   C     G        F#
  Taxi, taxidermist, taxidermist
Em    C     G          F#
  Sopping-ripe intentionest, oh I am intent
Em      C      G        F#
  On paying attention again to my own
 Em        C               G       F#
Cracked compass, steady-handed

Verse 2:
Em  A7  Em  A*
Em**A7  Em  A**

Em       A7         Em         A7
Semantic satiation where I can say your name
Em       A7     Em  A7
Over and over til it means nothing
Em           A7         Em       A7
A deliberate extinction of everything I know now I was
Em             A7   Em  A7
never meant to know, know about you

Pre-Chorus:
    Em* Dsus4 G*   Em* Dsus4 G*
But you are a fawn wth such secrets and
Em* Dsus4    G*      Em* Dsus4    G*
I have been fond and keen on your meekness
     Em*    Dsus4       G*      Em* Dsus4   G*
I've bled dry for your arms and I've longed to
Em* Dsus4 G*      Em* Dsus4 G*
gnaw on your neck, fawning over it

Refrain:
Em     C     G         F#
  My love, oh my sweet love whom I am
 Em     C       G      F#
yet to unravel with
Em     C             G
  One night lie on my pulse, tap the(...)
            F#
beats of my heart out on your clavicle
Em       C          G          F#
  One day we shall be enraptured! Sweet enrapture!
Em   C  G F#
  Ooooooooh

Outro:
Em      C        G            F#
  What anticipation and how masterful
Em        C
  You can show me I am here in(...)
G                          F#
this world, tall and truly true
Em        C               G          F#
  Meeting myself before I meet you



Em:   022000
A7:   x02020
C:    x32010
G:    320033
F#:   20020x
Em*: x7500x
Dsus4:x5400x
G*:   3200xx
A*:  5/3/2/0 on b string
A**: 7/3/2/0 on b string
Em**:    2/0 on e string