Slaughter Beach, Dog – Politics Of Grooming (Guitar Acoustic)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) • Video Lesson
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Chords

The song's actually a lot simpler than it sounds, just these three chords. I learned this by ear but it's pretty easy and I'm 99% sure it's accurate.
Chord Progressions
      B          E          F#
Eb|----------|----------|----------|
Bb|--4-------|---5------|---7------|
Gb|-------4--|-------4--|-------4--|
Db|----------|-2---2----|-4---4----|
Ab|-2---2----|----------|----------|
Eb|----------|----------|----------|
You could also play this song in E standard, just subtract one from each of the numbers. Repeat these chord progressions until the change marked in time with the lyrics. For the E progression, I sometimes like to hit a 0 on the low E string instead of a 2 on the D string. Anyway, that's it. Here's the tab. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Verse 1]
B
I know the “you” when you are getting dressed

E                                         B
Is not the “you” I've really come to know

F#
She speaks in shorter phrases

E
And she often can't remember

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

           E                            B
Rather preference for the politics of grooming

           F#
Hell, I'd paint my face and fingers

        E       
And my toes and lips and eyelids

       B                              F#
If it meant tonight I didn't have to think about the future

B
Just to fixate my attention on a wooden powder pencil

E
Not a single thought devoted

       B
To whatever's on outside the house

    F#                                  E
Or even past the door to your mother's bathroom
Where we're sitting
        B                        F#        B
And surviving on the steadiness of passing time
[Chorus 1]
B
So when the lines are drawn and all the powders matted

           E                              B
You'll be standing there blinking at your image

F#
And you wished that it would turn around

E
And do what it's supposed to

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

           E
She would tuck you in and close your bedroom door

           F#
Then one night you sprung awake

           E
Inside a turning twisted dream

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

E
Or feel your mouth all hot against her ear

F#
So you kissed her like she taught you

            E
And for the first time on the head 

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

           E                              B
You'll be standing there blinking at your image

F#
And you wished that it would turn around

E
And do what it's supposed to

B                      F#                B
But reflections do not turn themselves away

         F#
Yeah you wished that you would turn around

    E
And do what you're supposed to

B                  F#                  B
But it's easier to blink and stare and stay

[Outro]
Eb|---------------|
Bb|--4----5---4~--|
Gb|-----------4~--|
Db|---------------|
Ab|-2---2-----2~--|
Eb|---------------|