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Nightmares by Josh Ritter
Nightmares
Capo:2nd fret
Standard Tuning
Chords used:
EADGBe
C:032010
F:133211
G:320033
Intro chords: [C - F - G] x4
Verse 1 chords:
C F G C F G
Unaware, the nightmare sleep, on what fodder do they feed?
C F G C F C
For two long weeks I stayed awake, until I saw one cross your face, yeah
Interlude: [Intro chords]x2
Verse 2: [use verse 1 chords]
I knew that you had been untrue, I didn't know how, but I knew, well
Who you spoke to in your dreams, cause never had you spoke to me like that
Unaware, the nightmare sleep, on what fodder do they feed?
I followed them back down to hell, and I spent some time down there myself
Interlude: [Intro chords]x2
Verse 3: [use verse 1 chords]
Nightmares have their dreams as well, when they sleep they go to hell
And they drink their fill on lakes of blood, and canter 'cross their
skull-paved mud and
Nurse their little colts on flies, their cultish teeth, like kitchen knives
Look down from abysmal cliffs, they're dead by the lead wind riffed, on
Denizens too deep to see you, on dreams nightmares, nightmares be, yeah
Unaware, the nightmare sleep, on what fodder do they feed?
I'd been awake so long by then, they thought that I was one of them
Interlude: [Intro chords]x4
Verse 4: [use verse 1 chords]
Nightmares cannot be rib-caged, midnight's just a steeple chase down,
Silver needles half will go, pin your navel to your soul and
The other half will go instead, gallop across the kicked up bed and
Find the one who's sleeping sound, and
Drag him down, drag him down
Drag him down, oh drag him down
Drag him down, oh drag him down
Verse 5: [use verse 1 chords]
Drag him down where I got took, and though he may not wanna look
I sift hell for an equal pain, shard-born beetles boiling rain
I prop his eyes and down them feed the same hell he first fed to me, now
I know where the nightmare sleep, on what fodder do they feed?
I followed them back down to hell, I spent some time down there myself
Outro: [use verse 1 chords]
I know where the nightmare sleep
I know where the nightmare sleep
I know where the nightmare sleep
I know where the nightmare sleep
I know where the nightmare sleep
I know where the nightmare sleep
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version 2
Capo:2nd fret
Fmaj7:x33210
[Intro]
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
[Verse 1]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
On what fodder do they feed
C/G Fmaj7 G
For two long weeks I stayed awake
C/G Fmaj7 G
until I saw one cross your face I...
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
[Verse 2]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I knew that you had been untrue
C/G Fmaj7 G
I didn't know how, but I knew the
C/G Fmaj7 G
Who you spoke to in your dreams, was
C/G Fmaj7 G
Never how you spoke to me now
[Chorus]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
On what fodder do they feed
C/G Fmaj7 G
I followed them back down to hell
C/G Fmaj7 G
And I spent some time down there myself
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
[Verse 3]
C/G Fmaj7 G
Nightmares have their dreams as well
C/G Fmaj7 G
And when they sleep they go to hell
C/G Fmaj7 G
And they drink their fill on lakes of blood
C/G Fmaj7 G
Canter 'cross the skull-paved mud
C/G Fmaj7 G
And nurse their little colts on flies
C/G Fmaj7 G
Their coltish teeth like kitchen knives
C/G Fmaj7 G
And look down from abysmal cliffs
C/G Fmaj7 G
Their dead hair by the lead wind riffed
C/G Fmaj7 G
On denizens too deep to see
C/G Fmaj7 G
Whose own dreams nightmares' nightmares be
[Chorus]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
On what fodder do they feed
C/G Fmaj7 G
I'd been awake so long by then
C/G Fmaj7 G
They thought that I was one of them
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
C/G Fmaj7 G
[Verse 4]
C/G Fmaj7 G
Nightmares cannot be ribcaged
C/G Fmaj7 G
Midnight's just a steeple chase
C/G Fmaj7 G
Down silver needles half will go
C/G Fmaj7 G
Pin your navel to your soul
C/G Fmaj7 G
The other half will go instead
C/G Fmaj7 G
A'gallop 'cross the kicked up bed
C/G Fmaj7 G
And find the one who's sleeping sound
C/G Fmaj7 G
And drag him down, oh drag him down
C/G Fmaj7 G
Drag him down, oh drag him down
C/G Fmaj7 G
Drag him down, oh drag him down
C/G Fmaj7 G
Drag him down, oh drag him down
[Verse 5]
C/G Fmaj7 G
Drag him down where I got took
C/G Fmaj7 G
And though he may not want to look
C/G Fmaj7 G
I'll sift hell for an equal pain
C/G Fmaj7 G
Shard-borne beetles boiling rain
C/G Fmaj7 G
I/ll prop his eyes and down them feed
C/G Fmaj7 G
The same hell he first fed to me now
[Chorus]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmare sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
On what fodder do they feed
C/G Fmaj7 G
I followed one back down to hell
C/G Fmaj7 G
And spent some time down there myself
[Outro]
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
C/G Fmaj7 G
I know where the nightmares sleep
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