Destroyer – Shooting Rockets From The Desk Of Nights Ape (Guitar)

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Caution, hot ashes

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The girl says to her first kiss

           C#m                                            G#m
They stuck eternity inside a bird's fist just to watch it fly

                                           C#m
Just to make it go, just to let them slip away

                                B
Don't ask me how I know, I just do

      C#m                              B
Night surgeon dons his robes, to take apart a fellow amateur

          A
Well I've heard it once said; one gives what one gets

               G#m
Oh I didn't go out into this world just to get stung by rich mans hornets

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Who amongst us has left these things undone?

              C#m                   B
Who let these animals into my kingdom?

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A blind doe learns to work the rig, a once thin man turns into a pig

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The endless groves where my soul pukes the night away

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The problem as I see it: I was messed up

     G#m
On a tangent I was wrong

              C#m
They mix them strong

                         B
And I was partial to the feeling

       A
It's a terrible feast we've been stuffing our faces on

  G#m
A terrible breeze from the east coming on

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Bearing the scent of our one hundred first kills

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You love her you leave her you try to achieve her

        C#m                          B
But the vision that she has from the start

        A
I've got street despair carved into my heart

         G#m
I've got street despair carved into my heart

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My dear didn't you hear

  A                            G#m
A chorus is a thing that bears repeating

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And the problem as I see it is

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Girls stay away from that shit

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Saw you in Swan Lake you were great

A
Saw you down in Strathcona square devouring an AfterEight

    G#m
Who cares, I didn't mean it

C#m
For your last encore you sawed yourself in half

            B
It was just you and your raft and this crummy requiem

A                  G#m
Shooting rockets

C#m
Run or fly

                B
At some point I had to ask why

                    A
I had to show you a world not tethered to disasters

                       G#m
But this would prove impossible, I snuck a look inside your skull and said

C#m            B
Don't look now, but Gretchen's seeing red again

    C#m
The truth is a thing to coax out of it shell

    B
The truth on this you and I are going to tangle

A                         G#m
Off treacherous bliss off

          C#m                                    B
First you come in all sweet, and then on tiger's paws you retreat

       A                          G#m
Into a darken nether shadow region, hey are they still serving that piss?

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Shooting rockets

            C#m
And it'd be true what they say

                                     A
Were they to say why yes I dig the scourge

            C#m
And it'd be true what they say

                                     A
Were they to say why yes I dig the scourge

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It's not that I quit, it's not that my poems are shit

       C#m                      A
In the light of the privilege of dreams

          C#m                      A
Alive she cried once now alive she screams

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Shooting rockets

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Praise be the delightful muezzin tending his flock, and

A                                                    C#m
Praise be those alabaster hands running amok on your body

                                    A
They love you in spite of your lame scene

           C#m                                   A
We live in darkness the light is a dream you see

           C#m                                   A
We live in darkness the light is a dream you see

           C#m
We live in darkness the light is a dream

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets

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Shooting rockets