This Regrettable End chords by Parenthetical Girls

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Eb

Intro:


Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Cm Gm Bb


Verse:

          Eb             Gm
Might the strings swell again?
            Eb       Gm
Sound, then sadly descend?
       Eb       Cm             Gm        Bb
For to lend due respect this regrettable end?
         Eb             Gm
For I’ve slept with the best,
        Eb            Gm
as I’ve wept with the rest
      Eb               Cm
Ever–blessed with this sense
           Gm           Bb
some swift end might be met
            Eb            Gm
Could those strings swell again
          Eb        Gm
lest mine eyes well instead?
       Eb         Cm
For to lend bated breath
          Gm             Bb
less this life that I’ve left?
        Eb            Gm
Yet our song soldiers on
            Eb            Gm
post-script first fell to fawn
            Eb        Cm
Where each chord corresponds
         Gm            Bb
whom to all I’ve done wrong
      Eb       G#m
Chest drawn of breath,
       Eb      G#m
throat red as fresh–stretched
Ebsus4   Eb   Bb              G#        G#m  Bb
Post    –fuck flesh we’d both sooner forget
                   Eb         Gm
And yet strange successions remind:
           Eb          Gm
Flush with desperate decline-
        Eb            Cm
Certain prides thus obliged
       Gm             Bb
I’ve resigned to this life
          Eb          Gm
Rife with primes past behind
           Eb            Gm
strains of wrasp–wearied rhyme
       Eb         Cm
And no time to surmise
       Gm             Bb
all my wherefores and whys
          Eb               G#m
Though I suppose-should it help to
Eb        G#m   Ebsus4   Eb Bb
know- I’m oh so glad     to go
          G#              G#m    Bb
what with woe–soaked underclothes
    Eb
And were that this the final phrase
Gm
Cast from these lovely lips, I pray
D               D        E
Remember this, remember this:
              A              C#m
What once was wed with one’s past-
           A            C#m
Though now no strings attached-
        A            F#m
For the lust (or its lack)
           C#m         E
just can’t help coming back
            A      Dm
Well past reprieve we’ve reached;
     A          Dm
Each creased of ceaseless
Asus4   A     E
griefs  we’ve seen
          D         Dm
Save this one brief relief

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