of Montreal – Fugitive Air (Guitar)

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Updated with the official lyrics from Polyvinyl. Here are some of the weirder chords in the song and how Kevin (most likely) plays them: CMaj7 (X35450) FMaj7 (X33550) Edim7 (XX1212) G#aug (XX6554) Am (XX7555) B A C A F G F C D E

E                           F# G
I do wrong, strictly speaking, just for myself, because it 

E                                F#     G
Makes me feel like a real man to hold hegemony over my biznezzz, and I

Dm          C                CMaj7     FMaj7 
I refuse to be abused by the milieu of wistful decay

D                   E                    F       F/E F/D 
Besides I'm used to all of my scruples deserting me

F/Db         C            E7
Like they've done today

    B                                       A
The lady from the block hunched over on the stoop 

         C                  A
With her withered old titty out,

                 F         G    F
Sayin' I've been rolled so many times, it's just

C
Feeding the pigeons

B
Now her grandson swings a little rabbit by the leg

A         C                           A
While his mother's playing two wooden flutes

          F         G        F
I went to repo some fugitive air

     C                D     E
To escape this street's vagary aesthetic

    E
Has anybody here seen my old friend Blob?

F#      G
Oh, has anybody seen where he's gone?

        E
What he thinks I owe him is his former life

    F#        G
But how can I unmake someone else's mistakes?

Dm                C  
I guess I was his anti-hero

CMaj7           FMaj7
The bitter word on his lips

D              E
I hope I never feel a terror like 

F    F/E       F/D     F/Db   C          E7
When you've discovered your autonomy had flipped

C                     Edim7    F 
I feel like I possess only the bad aspects

Edim7    G      F                C           E7
Of invisibility, but none of the good ones

C                            Edim7   F 
Are we walking mausoleums of scented rotting flesh?

Edim7         G 
Mother always liked you best 

F                C
Liked your teeth upon her breast

C                              Edim7   F
They removed the oils from the eyes of street cats

        Edim7       G
Through some shitty witchcraft 

F                     C             E7
And apply it to their brows and genitalia

C                 Edim7    F
I had no idea how deeply I wounded you

      Edim7            G
But I don't need no forgiveness

F                  C                 E7
And no level of contrition will ever do

C Edim7 F Edim7 G F C E7 C Edim7 F Edim7 G F C C C C/G G#aug Am G#aug F FMaj7 CMaj7 Notes: The "C D E" in the intro and fourth verse is played barred at the 3rd, 5th, and 7th frets, but it sounds great if you drop down to the open E shape for the "E F# G" that follows. I know the F/Db sounds weird, but I was able to isolate the acoustic guitar track, and that's what he's playing. Focus on the descending root notes on the A and E strings like he does.