Ethel Cain – Powerline Valley (Guitar)

E
When i met you there

                            B          G#m
Underneath the powerlines, i'd start to cry

             A
To wash you away

             E
Cause i'm a goddamn fool and i

                      B              G#m
Knew you'd ruin my life in the fever dream

             A
Of a summer haze

E B
I was 19 you were 21

G#m
My mama said she loved you

A                                 E
She wasn't the only one you lost yours back

               B               G#m
When you were 15 you forgot softness

               A
And what the word means

E                        B
But i've come to know you like you forgot

G#m            A
You knew yourself

E            b                   B
Gave you my virginity under the overpass

G#m                             A
Static tearing up your daddy's stereo

E
You were pouring sweat and i was

B
Bleeding out on your seats

G#m
But we just laughed to death

A
And held each other close

A
Valleys of powerlines

C#m
We drive by day and night

             E                    B
Stretching for miles away from here

        A
We talk of runnin'

                   C#m
Straight shot just gunnin'

                E             G#m
Until we're out there in the clear

E                   B      A
It's been hard here for you

A                      E
But i know, i'm trying too

B                  E B                 A
All alone in this town in this alabama wild

E                B  A
Nothing stops if not for you

E                        G#m    A
But i'll always love you and you know i will

E                          B
We spent september on the backroads

G#m
Shotgunnin' warm bud lights down

                   A
A sinner's rabbit hole

E                   B
By the fire, taking off my dirty blouse

G#m
I let your hands do things that

                A
No one needs to know

E
And i love you like you

      B
Won't ever know cause you

G#m                            A
Get too caught up in what they tell you to

E
I'll never forget the night or the

B
Paper in his hand when

G#m
You found your daddy there swinging

A
From the ceiling fan

E
By that belt you fucking hated

B
That left the marks i don't ask about

G#m
All i know is i've never seen you hurt

A
As bad as you do right now

A
Now you crush up pills to forget

C#m
And you crush up more to sleep

      E
You crushed yourself into a ghost

                B
That i can't reach when you're inside me

       A
And i take each blow you give me

     C#m
And i keep them as a gift

              E
At least you can still bear to touch me

            B
And when you throw you never miss

G#m                E  B
It's been hard here for you

A                  E
But i know, i'm trying too

B                  E  B             A
All alone in this town in this alabama wild

E                 B     A
Nothing stops if not for you

B                                      A
But i'll always love you and you know i will

E                             B
You'd been gone for days when i

G#m                            A
Heard the news that you'd been found

E                             B
Shotgun in hand in your daddy's field

G#m                            A
Sprayed out all over the ground one last time

F#m
I wish we'd have left while we still could

A                                  E
But i'll do what i promised you i would

                                   B
And let those powerlines take me somewhere

E                     B
It's been hard here for you

A                     E
But i know, i'm trying too

B                 A                    E
All alone in this town in this alabama wild

E                 B A
Nothing stops if not for you

E                            B     A
But i'll always love you and you know i will

E
When i met you there underneath the powerlines,

B             G#m
i'd start to cry

A
And then i'd let you in

E
Cause i'm a goddamn fool and i

                 B                  G#m
Let you ruin my life but if i had the chance

A
I'd do it all again