Los Campesinos! – To The Boneyard (Guitar)
Key
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Versions
(2)
Guitar Intro Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[Intro]
D D G D G D x2
[Verse 1]
D Bm Respite in twilight, space in the cavity D A G Wall at grandparent's house behind the apple tree D Bm Where once you sang with your siblings now D A G Watching bodies bobbing down the stream, leaving the town
[Verse 2]
D Bm I'm a picture of no flesh, only bones D A G As we're stripping off my skin to run it up the pole D Bm And salute the breeze that ripples the sheath D A G Of the skeleton that's trembling on the ground beneath
[Chorus]
Bm F#m Em Walked your entire country up the central reservation Bm F#m G Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby Bm F#m Em The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation Bm F#m G Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge]
D We rifle through piles of bones D For something to chew on, for something to own
D D G D G D
[Verse 3]
D Bm Through my teenage years at my mother's house D A G Every evening, six times, there comes a phone call to ask D Bm "Where's my daughter gone?" She moved six years ago D A G Now receiver's cold, the phone calls dry, there's no one home D F#m G And that is what we feared the most
[Chorus]
Bm F#m Em Walked your entire country up the central reservation Bm F#m G Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby Bm F#m Em The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation Bm F#m G Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge]
D We rifle through piles of bones D For something to chew on, for something to own D We rifle through piles of bones D For something to chew on, for something to own
[Verse 4]
Bm G And so we stitched our eyes and mouths closed Em Lest we open them Bm G Em Breaking the seal that our bodies have formed Bm G Em As a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow Bm G Em That friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow