Pieta chords by St. Vincent

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: B minorBm

🎸 Verse 1:
N.C.          B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
Baptized in the shallow end
F# minorF#m  C#C# F# minorF#m A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
Of a Holiday Inn
F# minorF#m          B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
Limbs dangled over my Pa
F# minorF#m  C#C#    F# minorF#m A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
Like an inverse Pietà



🎸 Chorus:
F# minorF#m C#C#     F# minorF#m C#C#
Mother Nature cried
      D MajorD A augmentedA    D MajorD
"You are Leviathan, my child
  A augmentedA   B minorBm F# minorF#m  G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m C#C# F# minorF#m C#C#
You are Leviathan inside"

🎸 Verse 2:
N.C.         B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
And my lungs runneth over
   F# minorF#m  C#C#  F# minorF#m A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
With chlorinated water
F# minorF#m          B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
And I pleaded with my Pa
       F# minorF#m   C#C#  F# minorF#m  A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
But he said, “I can’t carry you no more”


🎸 Chorus:
F# minorF#m C#C#     F# minorF#m C#C#
Mother Nature cried
      D MajorD A augmentedA    D MajorD
"You are Leviathan, my child
  A augmentedA   B minorBm F# minorF#m  G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m C#C# F# minorF#m C#C#
You are Leviathan inside"
F# minorF#m C#C#     F# minorF#m C#C#
Mother Nature sighed
       D MajorD  A augmentedA      D MajorD
“What hell is this I made this time?
  A augmentedA   B minorBm F# minorF#m   G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m C#C# F# minorF#m C#C#
You are Leviathan in size”


🎸 Verse 3:
N.C.         B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
Can I make a pet of you?
F# minorF#m  C#C#    F# minorF#m   A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
Dress you up for all the girls
F# minorF#m           B minorBm F# minorF#m B minorBm F# minorF#m
Will I keep you begging now?
  F# minorF#m   C#C#    F# minorF#m  A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm
Or touch you with my gentle words?


🎸 Chorus:
F# minorF#m C#C#     F# minorF#m C#C#
Mother Nature cried
      D MajorD A augmentedA    D MajorD
"You are Leviathan, my child
  A augmentedA   B minorBm F# minorF#m  G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m C#C# F# minorF#m C#C#
You are Leviathan inside"
F# minorF#m C#C#     F# minorF#m C#C#
Mother Nature sighed
       D MajorD  A augmentedA      D MajorD
“What hell is this I made this time?
  A augmentedA   B minorBm F# minorF#m   G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m C#C# F# minorF#m C#C#
You are Leviathan in size”

F# minorF#m