Abandoned Flesh chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
D#D# A#A# D#D# A#A#
D#D# A#A# D#D# B#B#


Verse 1:
    D#D#           A#A#
Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France
   D#D#             A#A#
Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance
     C minorCm
Siouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid
    D#D#                 B#B#
Every New Year's in Los Angeles you can still see Richard Blade

Chorus:
     A#A#  B#B#            D#D#
But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel
      A#A#  B#B#            D#D#
Yeah, the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel

D#D# A#A# D#D# A#A#
D#D# A#A# D#D# B#B#


Verse 2:
   D#D#
They charted once or twice
     A#A#
They were on a major label
     D#D#
When the singer went solo
     G#G#
He left money on the table
    C minorCm
The two main guys are related

They're at war with each other
      D#D#
Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
A#A#      B#B#
One for each brother


Bridge:
     G#G#  B#B#    C minorCm
But the world came to agree
G#G#              B#B#
  What you see is what you get
C minorCm
And what you get is what you see
          C minorCm           B#B#
Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi
     D#D#                C minorCm
Bands who had to leave the darkness for the sun
   G#G#             C minorCm
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red I think
       C minorCm          B#B#
They've been playing clubs since 1981

Verse 3:
   D#D#
To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel
   G#G#
Billy Corgan brought them on stage
     D#D#
It was in 2011
        G#G#
It's on their Wikipedia page
       C minorCm
But for the most part

However big that chorused bass may throb
    G#G#
You and me and all of us
          B#B#
Are gonna have to find a job


Chorus:
      A#A#        B#B#      D#D#
Because the world will never know or understand
G#G#
  The suffocated splendor
              B#B#
Of the once and future goth band


Outro:
D#D# A#A# D#D# A#A#
D#D# A#A# D#D# B#B#
D#D# D# D#D# D#