Car Seat Headrest – Beach Life-In-Death (Guitar)

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(All chords are barre) [Part 1]

             C  
Last night I drove to Harper's Ferry and I thought about you

there were signs on the road that warned me of stop signs

    D
the speed limit kept decreasing by ten

as we entered a town about halfway there

       G
it was almost raining at the train station

we put our hoods on our heads at the train station

         Bm
we threw rocks into the river

the river underneath the train tracks

             C
And when the train came it was so big and powerful

when it came into the little station

            D
I wanted to put my arms around it

but the conductor looked at me funny

      G 
so we had to say goodbye and leave

the monopoly board still in the backseat

          Bm
took that nightmare left turn to get out of town

ran into the decreasing speed limits again

C
What should I do? Eat breakfast

What should I do? Eat lunch

D
What should I do? Eat dinner

What should I do? Go to bed

G
Where can I go? Go to the store

Where can I go? Apply for jobs

B
Where can I go? Go to a friend's

Where can I go? Go to bed C D G Bm

C
I wrote beach death when I thought you were taken

I wrote beach funeral when I knew you were taken

        D
I wrote beach fags, well it wasn't about you

but it could've been. well no it couldn't have

         G
I spent a week in Ocean City

and came back to find you were gone

          Bm
I spent a week in Illinois

and came back to find you were still gone

C
I pretended I was drunk when I came out to my friends

        D
I never came out to my friends

We were all on Skype

      G
and I laughed and changed the subject

                           Bm
she said "what's with this dog motif"

I said "do you have something against

C   D 
dogs"

G Bm

C
I am almost completely soulless

I am incapable of being human

D
I am incapable of being inhuman

I am living uncontrollably

          G
It should be antidepression

as a friend of mine suggested

             Bm 
because it's not the sadness that hurts you

it's the brain's reaction against it

C
It's not enough to love the unreal

I am inseparable from the impossible

D
I want gravity to stop for me

                                               G
My soul yearns for a fugitive from the laws of nature

I want a cut scene

         Bm
I want a cut from your face to my face

I want a cut I want

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                   D     
I don't want to go insane

G                          Bm
I don't want to have schizophrenia

    C                           D
The ocean washed over your grave

    G                           Bm
The ocean washed over your grave

[Part 2]
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C G C G

C
Last night I dreamed he was trying to kill you

G
I woke up and I was trying to kill you

C
It's been a year since we first met

G
I don't know if we're boyfriends yet

C
Do you have any crimes that

G
we can use to pass the time I'm

C
running out of drugs to try

C
We said we hated humans

G
We wanted to be humans

C
We said we hated humans

G
We wanted to be humans

Get more groceries get eaten get more groceries get eaten get more groceries

    C   
get eaten

C
A book of Aubrey Beardsley art

G
corrupted me in youth

        C
now I'm trapped inside my youth

              G
and you're in love with late-stage youth

C
Thank god for the little things and and

G
fuck god that they're little things I am

C
running out of prayers to sing

C
And pretty soon you'll find some nice young

G
satanist with braces and one

C
capital o significant Other

G
and you can take him home to your mother and

say ma, this is my brother

C
We said we hated humans

G
We wanted to be humans

C
We said we hated humans

G
We wanted to be humans

Get more groceries get eaten get more groceries get eaten get more groceries

    C                    G
Get eaten by the one you love

          C               G
when they put their lips around you

        C                         G
you can feel their smile from the inside

[Part 3] C D

G
Last night I dreamed he was trying to kill you

                                        Bm
I woke up and I was trying to kill you

     C
Your ears perked up

I perked up when your ears perked up

             D
you were all looking around

                       G
and I hoped it was for me

Bm
I hoped you were using your sonar systems for me

C
The ancients saw it coming

you can see that they tried to warn them

       D
in the tales that they told their children

but they fell out of their heads in the morning

     G
They said sex can be frightening

but the children were not listening

        Bm
and the children cut out everything

except for the kissing and the singing

          C
when they finally found their home

at Walt Disney studios

         D
and then everyone grew up

with their fundamental schemas fucked

              G
but there are lots of fish left in the sea

there are lots of fish in business suits

     Bm
that talk and walk on human feet

and visit doctors, have weak knees

C
oh please let me join your cult

D
I'll paint my face in your colors

G
You had a real nice face

Bm
I had an early death

C
The ocean washed over your grave

D
The ocean washed open your grave

G
The ocean washed over your grave

Bm
The ocean washed open your grave