Widows chords by Mount Eerie

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1: Phil Elverum & Julie Doiron:
 C# minorC#m
G# minorG#m     A augmentedA
It's almost Mother's Day
E MajorE        G#G#     F# minorF#m
Me and the other widows will commiserate
C# minorC#m           A augmentedA E MajorE
Alone at Montessori again
G# minorG#m      F# minorF#m
Straddling two worlds
   C# minorC#m  G# minorG#m       A augmentedA
Between?the?crush of single?parenting
    E MajorE
And the need for wailing in?the woods
F# minorF#m
Around a slash pile burning
C#C#      G#G#   F# minorF#m
Into the night with tear crusted eyes
E MajorE F# minorF#m

Verse 2: Phil Elverum:
C# minorC#m             A augmentedA
I know I'm overcompensating
    E MajorE G#G#     F#m7F#m7
In this PTSD disorientation
    C#m7C#m7       G# minorG#m        A augmentedA
From my brief time in the rich part of the city
    E MajorE        G# minorG#m
Now my hands stink like salmon skin
F# minorF#m
Left out in the rain in the ash
    C#5C#5          G#5G#5
Of the fire from last night
      F#m5
I haven't bathed in a while
        E MajorE
And no one's near me


Verse 3: Phil Elverum & Julie Doiron:
  G# minorG#m    F# minorF#m
(If there's significance in where you live
C# minorC#m     G# minorG#m     F# minorF#m
Let it all go and follow love and intuition)
      E MajorE        G# minorG#m      F# minorF#m
Today the tabloids told the world you separated me

(And see what's there)
  C# minorC#m     G# minorG#m       A augmentedA
My phone began dinging more than usual

(In the open sky)
           E MajorE         G# minorG#m        F# minorF#m
It was just like the day they found out that we'd gotten married

(Because we're all gonna die)
 C# minorC#m     BB
Unwanted attention
     A augmentedA         E MajorE          G#G#         F# minorF#m
From an inhumane delirious absurd other world that keeps trying to eat you

 A augmentedA
Verse 4: Phil Elverum & Julie Doiron:
       C# minorC#m   G#m7G#m7     A augmentedA
I woke up quivering, raw, and heartbroken again
     E MajorE        G# minorG#m
Took my daughter to the garbage dump
  F# minorF#m
And rifled through the free pile
     C# minorC#m       G# minorG#m
And stood next to the pit
  A augmentedA             E MajorE     G# minorG#m
The crows and ravens circling spoke to us
       F# minorF#m      C# minorC#m G# minorG#m
And we spoke back to them
   A augmentedA
But nothing is real
       E MajorE    G# minorG#m  F# minorF#m
Except this one thing


Outro: Phil Elverum:
C# minorC#m      BB    A augmentedA               C# minorC#m      BB
Please remember at the bookstore in the poetry corner upstairs
        A augmentedA
I slept with my head on your lap