August 6th chords by MewithoutYou

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A augmentedA

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
B minorBm                D MajorD
Aug. 6th, carved in desks with old knives:
                A augmentedA
“Back when our common cause was alive
                     B minorBm
And--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were in bloom
                    D MajorD
Children watched as the soldiers marched by
                   A augmentedA
All the birds fell like frogs from the sky
                    B minorBm
Prostrate in the streets every crescent moon
                  D MajorD
Lonesome offspring of which still resound
                        A augmentedA
With the victimless sins of their authors passed down
                       B minorBm
And the remnants of loathsome, disjointed worlds
                     D MajorD
Along the short path round the lily pad pond
                   A augmentedA
With off-white deerskin wedding dress on
                       B minorBm
German songs, homemade bonnets like old-order, amish girls jilted by squirrels
            D MajorD
In the parks of Sioux Falls haunted by church bells
        A augmentedA
Like ghosts of applause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls like
  B minorBm                     D MajorD                     A augmentedA
New Mexico, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion dolls making up myths about wounds without cause...”
                        B minorBm
And sometimes when it’s quiet my heart feels like Guernica
                       D MajorD
scenes from old air raid: on screens in blue dusk
                            A augmentedA
Perfumed neighborhoods/graveyards the breath feels like flies in my lungs, voice like ambulance
      B minorBm
Sirens whose light floods the ground
                    D MajorD
(“praying mantis spreads arms” said the lines of whose palm?)
                  A augmentedA
Skyline shifting like clouds became “airplane descends”
                  B minorBm
fade to scenes on the ground: human foreheads all smashed
                D MajorD
Foreign cars upside down, insect mouths open wide
                  A augmentedA
I stared down a huge insect, bright red-glowing eyes
                    B minorBm
does it feel wrong to say a thought “metastasized”?:, legs on both highway sides

Break:
F# minorF#m A augmentedA G+G

(Said insect was mechanized!)

F# minorF#m A augmentedA G+G E minorEm
F# minorF#m A augmentedA G+G

(Said insect was mechanized!)