Chords with lyrics
Bury My Friends
Music & Lyrics by Sleater-Kinney
Intro:
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[Tucker:]
F# minorF#m BB
Today I am stitched, I am sewn
F# minorF#m BB
Patch me up, I've got want in my bones
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Like some doll you thought you could throw away
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I found my legs
[Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m BB F#F# BB
Ready to climb out from under concrete
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Only I get to be sickened by me
F# minorF#m
My body a smudge
BB F#F# BB
Can't make out the details
F# minorF#m BB C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
Want to start over and come into being
[Chorus - Tucker & Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
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We're sick with worry
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These nerve-less days
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We live on dread in our own guilded age
[Tucker:]
F# minorF#m BB
This dark world is precious to me
F# minorF#m BB
My scars make me breathe in so deep
F# minorF#m BB
My body has no need for sleep
F#F# F# minorF#m BB
This time around
[Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
Ready to find fragments of stillness
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Only I get to be punished by me
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Your voice is a crumb,
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It leads me from the wildness
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Wanna start over, forget everything
[Chorus - Tucker & Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
F# minorF#m BB
We're sick with worry
F# minorF#m BB
These nerve-less days
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
We live on dread in our own guilded age
[Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m
Make me a headline
G# minorG#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
I wanna be that bold
BB F# minorF#m
Make me a spotlight
G# minorG#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m BB
So I can see that gold
F# minorF#m
Make me a headline
G# minorG#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
I wanna be that bold
BB F# minorF#m
Make me a spotlight
BB C# minorC#m F# minorF#m BB
So I can see the gold
[Chorus - Tucker & Brownstein:]
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m BB
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
F# minorF#m BB
We're sick with worry
F# minorF#m BB
These nerve-less days
F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m BB
We live on dread in our own guilded age
F# minorF#m BB
We speak in circles
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We dance in code
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Untame and hungry
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On fire in the cold
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Exhume our idols
F# minorF#m BB
Bury our friends
F# minorF#m BB F# minorF#m
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
Outro:
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