Destroyer – Looters Follies (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
         C                E
You can huff and you can puff

            Am
But you'll never destroy that stuff

               Dm        G
Finally, I see why, I suppose

          Dm
Kid, you better change your feathers

                              F        C      F
Cause you'll never fly with those... things

                  C      F
In 'These Nights,'  the boys sing

            C
"Hello, emptiness

    F
I heard you're alright

       C
I've heard you're alright

       F
I've heard of you"
[Verse 2]
   C              E
A body aching, fragile, and pale

       Am
Dark valleys house its trail

                          F                 G
Why can't you see that a life in art and a life of mimicry

                Dm     G
It's the same thing?!
[Instrumental] C F Dm G C F [Verse 3]
     C         Am
The room was crowded

             C                       Am                     F
And, though you couldn't care less about it, that much was true

       G
That month

           F                          G
Another version of this miniature Rome to set fire to

F
Why did we stop fucking around you?

G
Girls like gazelles graze

F                         G             Dm    G
Boys wearing bells blaze new trails in sound
[Instrumental] C F Dm G x2 C F [Verse 4]
         C              G
I looked up, I looked around

    F                                  Em
A famous Toronto painter shot me down

            Am                                 D
"Oh, I've busted my ass on these streets too long," he said

       F                   G         F
I set fire to the bed and tore his gown
[Outro]
F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                              Em
Felt some mercurial presence, hitherto unknown

           Dm                     C
It was the sun, it was a stone falling through blank space

              F                     Em              Dm C
It was that jewel-encrusted roan getting in my face

F                                 Em
  Looked across the way to The Princess Rooms

        Dm
I saw brides and their grooms

              C
I heard the sound of bells ringing!

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                                 Em
Cinders look back fondly upon a house on fire when across

    Dm
An ocean we go

    C                     F
We row and we row and we tire

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                                  Em
Now, step out of the darkness and into the light

             Dm                         C
Yeah, it's common knowledge I've been doing alright

       F
No, I can't complain

       Em                    Dm
On the East side, midwives' lives go down the drain

C                          F          Em
All cause our babies are dying, oh-oh-oh!

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                       Em                Dm
I lifted the veil to see nature's trickery revealed as pure shit

       C                          F                   Em
From which nothing ever rose cause nothing ever could

   Dm                               C             F Em
I swear somewhere the truth lies within this wood

   Dm                                              C  F Em
I swear, "Looters' Follies" has never sounded so good

     Dm             C             F      Em Dm C
And, win or lose, what's the difference?

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F     Em        Dm         C          F
Ladadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F Em Dm C x5