Los Campesinos! – The Black Bird The Dark Slope (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight

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My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in

       G#                             D#
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers

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But the brushstrokes feel like hearth pokes into my skin

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The black bird feasts upon my guts and bears its beak to fight

             G#                                  D#
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in

       G#                             D#
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers

          G#                                D#
Now they poke between my teeth and that's why I thirst
[Pre-Chorus]
     A#      D#      A#      D#
And when he flies me to the top

         A#      D#      A#  D#
There's nothing but the fog

     A#     D#       A#      D#
A heart of stone, eggshell for bones

      A#     D#
They lead you to be lost
[Chorus]
D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)

    D#
A part of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down)

    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)

A# D#    A# D#   A# D#
So sad to see, so sad
[Verse 2]
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I ask before I go for you to drop a lit match down my throat

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And smoke the bastard out, it'll burn him to a crisp

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'Cause I'm already carrion, been eaten from the inside too long

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This black bird wants to rip me limb from limb

    G#
The black bird dips its beak in blood

    D#
And writes its thoughts in cursive

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'Cross the bones that are its jailer and my ribcage

    G#
And when you turn me inside out

   D#
Believe in me, without a doubt

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The words were all of his and none of mine
[Pre-Chorus]
     A#      D#      A#      D#
And when he flies me to the top

         A#      D#      A#  D#
There's nothing but the fog

     A#     D#       A#      D#
A heart of stone, eggshell for bones

      A#     D#
They lead you to be lost
[Chorus]
D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

D#
The dark slope drags you down

    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)

    D#
A part of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down)

    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)

A# D#    A# D#   A# D#
So sad to see, so sad