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Intro:
verse 1:
C#m
Winter isn't much here
Am6 E
Just a flinching centigrade
B7
Though the grasses all look jaundiced and the
A7 E
Poplar branches flayed
B A E
Ooh-o-oh, the poplar branches flayed
C#m
Before your hysterical silence,
Am6 E
You came rapping at my door
B7
With your body as a sacrament
A7 E
Your mind a killing floor
B A E
Ooh-o-oh, your mind a killing flaw
Refrain 1:
G#m6 G#aug7
I've been trying to quell my anger
C# F#
And not feel bitter about all the darkness you gave
A Bb/A A
But as always there's that device that I cannot disengage
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
Oooh
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
Oooh
verse 2:
C#m Am6 E
Just as a Red Terror, you tried to kill what you couldnā??t rein
B7 A7 E
And now you're back in Knoxville masturbating your father's pain
B A E
Ooh-o-oh, masturbating your father's pain
Refrain 2:
G#m6 G#aug7
Stealing from his oration of filth ,
C# F#
I repeat the wickedness to force reactions out of you
A Bb/A A
But it never hurts as deeply as I want it to
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
mmm
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
ooh
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
oooh
Bb/A / Aadd6 /
verse 3:
C#m Am6 E
I think I'll mix my medicine and explore it 'til I'm dull
B7 A E
You made my sky a graveyard and my moon a funeral
B A E
Ooh-o-oh, my moon a funeral
Bridge:
F#m B F#m7 F#madd2
Oh-o-oh Oh-o-oh Oh-o-oh
F#m B/F# A A
Oh-o-oh Oh-o-oh Oh-o-oh
Chorus:
C# F# E F# C# G#
Now it's just a system of subtraction, oh yeah
E B G B D C#
I won't even turn around to notice your reaction
C# F# E F# C# G#
Now it's just a system of subtraction, oh yeah
E B G B D
I won't even feel the hateful vibing of your faction
C# F# E
Now it's just a system of subtraction
C# G# G# C# G# G#
Whatever happened to your star now?
F# G# F# F# G# F# F# G# C#
No one cares who you are now, oh, oh, oh,
F# B G# C#
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Bridge 2:
B E
You were once beloved, by my people
E/C B
Now it's bad luck to even say your name
G# C# F# B G C#
Oho, oho, oho
B E
When I see you it feels so awkward
E/C B
I try to be cool but it's such a drag
G# C# F# B G C#
Oho, oho, oho
Spoken Interlude:
Fm
I waited for you on our feral streets
E
Smelling other people's piss
Bridge 3:
D# G# A#
How could you think you see me backwards, babe
E A B
You ain't even seen the blikk fang, babe
D# G# C#
It's not acrimonious
Final Chorus:
C# F# E F# C# G#
'Cause now it's only systems of subtraction, oh yeah
E B G B D
I won't even turn around to look at your reaction
C# F# E
Now it's just a system of subtraction
Outro:
C# G# G# C# G# G#
Whatever happened to your star now?
F# G# F# F# G# F# F#
No one cares who you are now
C# G# G# C# G# G#
You used to share my broken throne
F# G# F# F# G# F# / C#(barre at 9th fret on the E)
Now you sing flat alone now, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Written by Kevin Barnes