mewithoutYou – Messes Of Men (Guitar)

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I do not exist, but faithfully

 E*
insist sailing in our separate

 Am*
Tiring and trying there's a necessary

 E*
dying like the horseshoe crab in its

 Am*
Such distance from our friends like a

                  E*
scratch across a lens made everything

 Am*
And our paper blew away before we’d

          E*
left the bay, so half blind we wrote

Am                   C
You caught me making eyes at the other

           E
boatmen's wives

                       G
and heard me laughing louder at the jokes

              Am
told by their daughters

                      C
I'd set my course for land, but you well

    E
understand

             Am
adulterous waters

                         C
the propeller's spinning blades held

                        E
acquaintance with the waves

                        G
as there's mistake I've made no rowing

       Am
could outrun

                    C
a cloth low on the mast like to say I've

       E
got no past

             Am
secretary's son

                    C
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on

     E
my glass

                          G
I'd never want someone so crass as to

                 Am
want someone like me

                          C
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a

          E
flashing lure

               Am
expected it to be!

                   C
I still taste it's kiss, that dull

            E
hook in my lip

                  G
it's a memory as useless as a rod without a

Am
reel

                     C
to an anchor ever dropped seasick yet

        E
still docked

             Am
mate at the wheel

                       C
floating forgetfully along, with no need

         E
to be strong

                         G
we keep our confessions long and when we

                  Am
pray we keep them short

                         C
I drank a thimbleful of fire,

                     E
I'm not ever coming back

       Am
Oh my g—d!

           C                     E
"I do not exist" we faithfully insist

                         G
while watching sink the heavy ship of

               Am
everything we knew

                 C
if ever you come near I'll hold up high a

   E
mirror