Big Thief – Mythological Beauty (Guitar)

Capo 5
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
C          F       G         F
You have a mythological beauty

C            F       G            F
You have the eye of someone I have seen

C           F     G      F
Outside of ordinary situations

C         F      G   F
Even outside of dreams

C          F     C                F           C          F            G
You lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights through your screen

C           F      G            F       C        F          G   F
There is a child inside you who’s trying to raise a child in me
[Chorus]
F              C
IF you wanna leave

F                C
You just have to say

       C         F      C      F
You’re all caught up inside

       C     F     C     F
But you know the way
[Verse 2]
C          F       G         F
You cut the flesh of your left thumb

C          F       G         F
Using your boyfriend’s knife

C          F       G         F
Seventeen, you took his cum

C          F       G         F
And you gave birth to your first life

C          F     C                F           C          F            G
You gave Andrew a family who you thought would love and take better care

C           F      G            F    C        F          G   F
I have an older brother I don’t know, he could be anywhere
[Chorus]
F              C
If you wanna leave

F                C
You just have to say

       C         F      C      F
You’re all caught up inside

       C     F     C     F
But you know the way
[Verse 3]
C          F       G         F
Rented a house in Niswah, Minnesota

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Shrapnel and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard

C          F       G         F
I built a ladder out of metal pieces

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Father was working hard

C          F     C                F           C           F            G
Standing beneath the oak tree by the front door, you were inside baking bread

C           F      G            F       C        F          G   F
Sister came out and put her arms around me, blood gushing from my head

C          F     C                F           C          F            G
You held me in the backseat with a dishrag, soaking up blood with your eyes

C           F      G            F       C        F          G   F
I was just five and you were twenty-seven, praying “don’t let my baby die”
[Chorus]
F              C
If you wanna leave

F                C
You just have to say

       C         F      C      F
You’re all caught up inside

       C     F     C     F
But you know the way

       C         F      C      F
You’re all caught up inside

       C     F     C     F
But you know the way