Ethel Cain – Strangers (Ukulele)

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[Intro] C Dm C F C F C Dm
        C              F
In your basement, I grow cold

         C                  F
Thinking back to what I was always told

       C                       Fm7         C     F
"Don't talk to strangers or you might fall in love"

C                   F
Freezer bride, your sweet divine

    C                  F
You devour like smoked bovine hide

    C                 F            Dm    F
How funny, I never considered myself tough

             Dm                Am        G
You're so handsome, walking over to me now

  F                     Am
I tried to be good, am I no good?

    G             Dm
Am I no good? Am I no good?

       F                       Am                 G
With my memory restricted to a Polaroid in evidence

              F                 Am
I just wanted to be yours, can I be yours?

     G                         Dm
Can I be yours? Just tell me I'm yours

F                                      Am                 G
If I'm turning in your stomach and I'm making you feel sick

    C       F
Oh, no, no, no

C   F
No, no

C   F
No, no
Dm F
        C                     F
When my mother sees me on the side

          C                      F
Of a milk carton in Winn-Dixie's dairy aisle

     C     F               C
She'll cry and wait up for me
F
           C                     F
We'll make love in your attic all night

   C             F
Euphoric in some strange delight

    C                  F                    Dm  F
I'm happier here 'cause he told me I should be, oh

             Dm               Am              G
You're so handsome when I'm all over your mouth
(When I'm all over your mouth, when I'm all over your mouth)
  F                   C
I tried to be good, am I no good?

  G               Am
Am I no good? Am I no good?

        F                      C                   G
With my memory restricted to a Polaroid in evidence (oh, oh)

            F                   C
I just wanted to be yours, can I be yours?

   G               Am             Gm
Can I be yours? Just tell me I'm yours

      F                                Am                  G
If I'm turning in your stomach and I'm making you feel sick (sick)
Am I making you feel sick?
Am    G    Dm
(No)

     F                 Am         G
Am I making you feel sick?    (No)

                           F                 Am      G
Am I making you feel, am I making you feel sick? (No)

     Dm                   F                Am        G
Am I making you feel, am I making you feel sick? (No)

                          F    Am      G
Am I making you feel sick? (Feel sick, feel sick)

     Dm              F          Am                   G
Am I making you feel sick? Am I making you feel sick? (No)
[Instrumental] F Am G Dm F Am G
F                                 Am
Found you just to tell you that I made it real far

    G
And that I never blamed you for loving me the way that you did

F                          Am                          G
While you were torn apart, I would still wait with you there

                     F                                Am
Don't think about it too hard or you'll never sleep a wink at night again

      G
Don't worry about me and these green eyes

                            F
Mama, just know that I love you (I love you)

    Am                           G
And I'll see you when you get here