Effigy Of Salt chords by Maria Mckee

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: E MajorE

♫ Verse 1:
    E MajorE
What a way, what a way to go
          B minorBm
What a fine and inexplicable way of going, this
          A augmentedA
What an uncanny visitation
 A augmentedA
Taking me into the depths
   E MajorE         BB
And leaving me stranded

♫ Verse 2:
    E MajorE
What a way, what a way to go
            B minorBm
What a peculiar and exquisite way of going, this
                  A augmentedA
I've been ready I've been willing all along and all the way down I go
 A augmentedA
And you will never know
    E MajorE
Just how far down I let you
     BB
And it's all the way I go

♫ Chorus:
     D MajorD
Just to look at you
     F# minorF#m             E MajorE
One last look is all I take before I have to go
     B minorBm
Just to look at you
     F# minorF#m
Like an effigy of salt
      E MajorE
I'm swept away, I sparkle forth
      BB
In diamond rays I fall forever
     D MajorD
Just to look at you
      C majorC  BB   A minorAm  E MajorE  BB
Then it’s down, down, down I go

♫ Verse 3:
       E MajorE
I hate the things I know
  E MajorE                 B minorBm
I wish I could retrace my steps before I went down to the sea
 B minorBm                 A augmentedA
Where I crept along the depths and prodded underneath
 A augmentedA
All along and far too deep
      E MajorE
At every creature, every foundling
    BB
Every horrid gaping mouth

♫ Chorus:
     D MajorD
Just to look at you
     F# minorF#m              E MajorE
One last look is all I take before I have to go
     B minorBm
Just to look at you
      F# minorF#m
When the lexicon is emptied out
   E MajorE
Of every thought and every breath
 BB
There is no language left
       D MajorD
But just to look at you
      C majorC   BB   A minorAm  E MajorE
And it's down, down, down I go

♫ Instrumental:
     B minorBm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
     FF
Oh Oh Oh Oh
DmDm BB
Oh Oh

♫ Verse 4:
   E MajorE
My beloved, my curse
                       B minorBm
How you've ripped me open and you've heaped upon my hurt
                   A augmentedA
And the many things that you have required of me
 A augmentedA
How they frighten and inspire me
   E MajorE
The arch of your brow
        BB
And the way everything is laid out

♫ Chorus:
     D MajorD
Just to look at you
     F# minorF#m             E MajorE
One last look is all I take before I have to go
     B minorBm
Just to look at you
   F# minorF#m                     E MajorE
The honey of your skin, the heart shape of your mouth
            BB
Oh, there I go again, I'll leave it out
       D MajorD
Just let me look at you
      C majorC   BB  A minorAm  E MajorE
And it's down, down, down I go (Down, down, down I go)

♫ Outro:
     B minorBm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
     FF
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
DmDm BB
Oh Oh
E MajorE
Oh (Down, down, down I go)
B minorBm
Oh
     FF
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
DmDm
Oh
E MajorE
Oh (Down, down, down I go)
     B minorBm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
     FF
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
DmDm
Oh
E MajorE
Oh (Down, down, down I go)