Rat Queen chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
    Eb MajorEb         AbAb         C minorCm
Meek subjects by torchlight come to pay their respects
    BB Bb majorBb        AbAb  G+G
As foretold by the ancient texts
   DbDb        AbAb
Line snaking down the sewer
     C minorCm      AbAb
Reverent hush upon the crowd
BB       DbDb
One by one we approach
  G7G7      FF
The figure in the shroud

Chorus:
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen


Verse 2:
           Eb MajorEb        AbAb
Great warm throbbing hum of the undercity
C minorCm
At one with the purpose
    BB         Bb majorBb
I am a faceless, nameless acolyte
AbAb          G+G
Here tonight at your service
    DbDb         AbAb
Take my visions, make them real
 C minorCm           AbAb
Impose them on the world above
BB         DbDb
All the dead sleepwalkers
G7G7            FF
Who never learned how to love


Chorus:
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen

Bridge:
     AbAb   Bb majorBb
Brand new dreams
   Eb MajorEb
Great visions
AbAb         G+G
Something heady and threatening
GbGb         FF
On the boil in the kitchen


Verse 3:
Eb MajorEb       AbAb
Arise from the storm drains
C minorCm
Take to the streets
BB           Bb majorBb
We who have never once tasted
AbAb       G+G
The stench of defeat
    DbDb      AbAb
Victory sweet as the dregs
C minorCm        AbAb
Of the fast food dumpster
BB             DbDb
Look how they jump when we show up
G7G7            FF
Like they've just seen a monster


Chorus:
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  C minorCm  Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams
          C minorCm    Eb MajorEb  F7F7
New dreams for the rat queen


Outro:
Bb majorBb FF C minorCm
Bb majorBb FF C minorCm
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb C minorCm
Eb MajorEb FF C minorCm