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Aristotle Ponders The Sound by L.A. Salami
Aristotle Ponders The Sound
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 8th fret
Key: Cm
[Intro]
e|----------------------------|-------------------------|
B|----------------------------|-------------------------|
G|----------------------------|--------0----------------|
D|---------------------1------|--2-1-2------------------|
A|-------2------2-1-2---------|---------------2-1-0-----|
E|-3-2-3----------------------|---------------------0---|
[Verse 1]
G B Em
I heard my mother cough to show her pain,
G B Em
Hidden behind the closed door again.
G B Em
My father must have wept when he came
G B Em
To have made such a sensitive boy.
G B Em
I’ve been fighting your holy war
G B Em
Ever since you took that plane.
G B Em
Well, I say god bless all of the harlots
G B Em
And the crack-heads blistered vein.
G B Em
My boss keeps asking me to ask more questions,
G B Em
And so I asked her “why?”
G B Em
Then I asked her why man chose to work for his food,
G B Em
When it’s clear to me that he’d much rather die?
G B Em
And if we’re all equal does that mean every man's due some luck?
G B Em
And how many roads must a man walk down, before he stops giving a fuck?
G B Em
She said “Quit your yapping, get back to work!
G B Em
Don’t you see you’ve got customers to serve.”
[Chorus]
G Em
And I said, “Of course I can,
G Em G
‘cause everybody is a servant to someone else.”
Em G
And she said, “stop talking now, you’re boring me,
Em G
don’t you see that you’re just the help?”
[Verse 2]
G B Em
I woke up in a strange bed one Sunday morning,
G B Em
With a woman I did not love on my left hand side.
G B Em
She looked at me as if she’d seen a ghost when she woke,
G B Em
And screamed when she saw the horse head on my right.
G B Em
She said her name was Lady Luck, and that I should leave.
G B Em
So I collected my stuff feeling slightly relieved.
G B Em
She was spread eagle, spread out and spread bare,
G B Em
And I was spread thin over the days and months that would proceed…
[Chorus]
G Em G
And she said, “Don’t you see? If you think about it
Em G
there’s one start one chance and one end.”
Em G
And I said, “Don’t talk to me, ‘cause there can be
Em G
A thousand if I pretend.”
[Verse 3]
G B Em
Tom Waits came to me in a dream
G B Em
With a swordfish stuck in the middle of his chest.
G B Em
He poured me a glass of rum and pondered, “What’s the point?
G B Em
You’re doomed to die, however hard you try your best.”
G B Em
And you said the same thing when you left me,
G B Em
When you took my devotion and my drive.
G B Em
Well, you left the starving boy where you hung your coat.
G B Em
I’ll take that back down now if you don’t mind.
[Chorus]
G Em G
But I understand, ‘cause if you’re not sure where
Em G
you are then you should move.
Em G Em G
And now that I am not, I think that I will do some moving too.
Em G Em G
‘Cause if you think about it, everybody is a servant to someone else,
Em G Em G
And if you say you’re not, well I suppose that means you’re a servant to yourself.
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