Slaughter Beach, Dog – Politics Of Grooming (Guitar)

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Chords

There are basically only 3 chords to this with a variation of the C chord on certain words. Pretty easy song when you get the hang of it. Dadd4 is just a C chord moved up 2 frets WHERE THERE ARE 0's you pick that string.
   G     C        Dadd4     Gadd4/C (C root note)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3-----1----------3--------0-----------------------------------------------|
G|-0-----0----------0--------0-----------------------------------------------|
D|-------2----------4--------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------3----------5--------3-----------------------------------------------|
E|-3-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
G
I know the “you” when you are getting dressed

C                                        G 
Is not the “you” I've really come to know

Dadd4
She speaks in shorter phrases

Gadd4/C
And she often can't remember

G                            Dadd4         G
Which impulsive words were emitted as response
[Verse 2]
G
But it's not a selfish shorter-spanned attention

           C                            G
Rather preference for the politics of grooming

           Dadd4
Hell, I'd paint my face and fingers

        Gadd4/C       
And my toes and lips and eyelids

       G                              Dadd4
If it meant tonight I didn't have to think about the future

G
Just to fixate my attention on a wooden powder pencil

C
Not a single thought devoted

       G
To whatever's on outside the house

    Dadd4                                Gadd4/C
Or even past the door to your mother's bathroom
Where we're sitting
        G                        Dadd4      G
And surviving on the steadiness of passing time
[Chorus 1]
G
So when the lines are drawn and all the powders matted

           C                              G
You'll be standing there blinking at your image

Dadd4
And you wished that it would turn around

Gadd4/C
And do what it's supposed to

G                      Dadd4             G
But reflections do not turn themselves away
[Verse 3]
G
When you were younger and your mother started drinking

           C                                    G
She would tuck you in and close your bedroom door

           Dadd4
Then one night you sprung awake

           Gadd4/C
Inside a turning twisted dream

         G                                Dadd4          G
And you ran downstairs to find her laying out across the floor
[Verse 4]
G
She did not hear you softly crying near her

C                                       G
Or feel your mouth all hot against her ear

Dadd4
So you kissed her like she taught you

            Gadd4/C
And for the first time on the head 

        G                  Dadd4         G
You got up and tucked your own self into bed
[Chorus 2]
G
So when the lines are drawn and all the powders matted

           C                              G
You'll be standing there blinking at your image

Dadd4
And you wished that it would turn around

Gadd4/C
And do what it's supposed to

G                      Dadd4            G
But reflections do not turn themselves away

         Dadd4
Yeah you wished that you would turn around

    Gadd4/C
And do what you're supposed to

G                  Dadd4                G
But it's easier to blink and stare and stay