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To The Boneyard by Los Campesinos!
To The Boneyard
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
D D G D G D x2
[Verse 1]
D Bm
Respite in twilight, space in the cavity
D A G
Wall at grandparent's house behind the apple tree
D Bm
Where once you sang with your siblings now
D A G
Watching bodies bobbing down the stream, leaving the town
[Verse 2]
D Bm
I'm a picture of no flesh, only bones
D A G
As we're stripping off my skin to run it up the pole
D Bm
And salute the breeze that ripples the sheath
D A G
Of the skeleton that's trembling on the ground beneath
[Chorus]
Bm F#m Em
Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Bm F#m G
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
Bm F#m Em
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Bm F#m G
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge]
D
We rifle through piles of bones
D
For something to chew on, for something to own
D D G D G D
[Verse 3]
D Bm
Through my teenage years at my mother's house
D A G
Every evening, six times, there comes a phone call to ask
D Bm
"Where's my daughter gone?" She moved six years ago
D A G
Now receiver's cold, the phone calls dry, there's no one home
D F#m G
And that is what we feared the most
[Chorus]
Bm F#m Em
Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Bm F#m G
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
Bm F#m Em
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Bm F#m G
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge]
D
We rifle through piles of bones
D
For something to chew on, for something to own
D
We rifle through piles of bones
D
For something to chew on, for something to own
[Verse 4]
Bm G
And so we stitched our eyes and mouths closed
Em
Lest we open them
Bm G Em
Breaking the seal that our bodies have formed
Bm G Em
As a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow
Bm G Em
That friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow
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