Los Campesinos! – Baby I Got The Death Rattle (Bass Tab)

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*verses are played softly*

[Verse 1]
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*repeat verse 1 _ times, last one on "see the frost has bitten me"*
"My blisters black and touch cold like a cute stuffed toy bears nose, the
kind of gift I'd give you like a less comitted Van Gogh, and"
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[Pre-Chorus]
"you, you are an angel, that's why you pray, and I am an ass, and that's why I bray. Your-"
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"halo slipped to frame you like a photo, porthole window. I see-
blood spill in the pure snow, you see sweet sauce on ice-cream cones. And"
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"you, you are an angel, that's why you pray, and I am an ass, and that's why I bray"
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        "if you were tomorrow, I'll be today, and this is the end"
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*break for 8 measures* [Chorus] "(I'm serious, so listen now)"
"Baby, I got the death rattle, and baby, I got it bad. I've been-"
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"digging my grave for quite some time, when I'm not digging up the past. and I-"
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"chewed my only necktie, from the metal frame of my bed, where I-"
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"tied your wrists together, spent all night giving (oh, you get the message though). not-"
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[Outro 1]
"headstone, but headboard, is where I wanna be mourned, not-"
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"headstone, but headboard, is where I wanna be mourned, not-"
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*repeat [Outro 1] x4*
[Outro 2]
"headstone (not headstone), but headboard (but headboard), is where I wanna be mourned, not-"
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"headstone (not headstone), but headboard (but headboard), is where I wanna be mourned, not-"
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*repeat {Outro 2] x5, fade out starts at 3rd repetition* ************************************ | x Dead note | ~ Vibrato ************************************