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

Key
-
Versions (3)

Auto-scroll

Chords

Bm
We burnt all the skin
From the palm of my hands
        D
With an old zippo lighter
And deodorant can
              G                        D
I went to the palmist and asked her to read

   G
No heart line, No sun line

   D
No life line, No need.

     Bm
Said all that I wanted was a quiet life

    A
Not one predetermined by minuscule slices

G 
Into my flesh and the broad she agreed

D
One look in my sad eyes she had to concede

Bm                     D
"Baby... the girdle of venus got me

                  G
Got me down on my knees.
G Bm D
Bm                         D
And baby... baby I got the death rattle and

       A              G          
You're six months old s-shakin' me."
Bm G D
Bm                            
Traced my right index finger 'long the roof of every car

D
On the walk back to your house In the cold from City Arms

       G
In the frost I drew a dick

          Bm 
For every girl that wouldn't fuck me

G
Woke early the next morning to see

    D
The frost had bitten me

D                     Bm
My blisters black and touch cold

Bm
Like a cute stuffed toy bear's nose

    A                D
The kind of gift I'd give you 

                      G
Like a less committed Van Gogh

G                   D                     G
And you, you are an angel, that's why you pray     

              A                    G
And I am an ass, and that's why I bray  

D                    Bm
Your halo slipped to frame you

Bm                       
Like a photo, a porthole window

      D
I see blood spill in the pure snow 

         A
You see sweet sauce on ice-cream cones

G                   D                     G
And you, you are an angel, that's why you pray     

              A                    G
And I am an ass, and that's why I bray  

            D                G
If you were tomorrow, I'd be today

                D
And this is the end
Riff on D here for a bit (I'm serious, so listen)
D
Baby I got the death rattle

    Bm            G
And baby I got it bad

D
I've been digging my grave for quite some time

         Em                 G
When I'm not digging up the past

D
And I chewed my only necktie

         Bm                G
From the metal frame of my bed

D
Where I tied your wrists together

      Em        G
Spent all night givin'
(Oh, you get the message)
D
Not headstone

Bm
But headboard

G
Is where I want to be mourned

D
Not headstone

Em
But headboard

G
Is where I want to be mourned

D
Not headstone

A
But headboard

G
Is where I want to be mourned