Sufjan Stevens – Barn Owl Night Killer (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] G# Bm G# Dm [Verse 1]
          G#
All I had hoped for

                   Bm
I kept inside your car

                  G#    D#m
The rabbit in the barn

            G#
Most of all I wait

                   Bm
I wait beside the door

                   G#   D#m
I wait beside the door
[Verse 2]
          G#
Oh, I was wrong

                 Bm
Trembling in the cage

                      G#
I was diamonds in the rage

           D#m
You little boy

         G#
In seven hours

           Bm
I consider death

                          G#
And your father called to yell at me

           D#m
You little boy
[Verse 3]
               G#
Found out you cheated me

           Bm
I ran behind the barn and cut my hand somehow

               G#
Blood in the meadow lark

                D#m
I punched your ears instead

              G#
I punched you in the head

                 Bm
You only laughed and laughed and laughed

                  G#
How I was wrong, tingling from the kill

               D#m
You tickle me until

             G#
You devil bird, you evil still

          Bm
I slept on my arms, sleeping on the sill

            G#
I was sleeping in the room with you

             D#m
You little boy, you little boy
[Verse 4]
             G#
How could you run from me now

             Bm
The loneliest chime in the house

            G#
The loneliest chime in the house

             D#m
You let it out, you let it out

             G#
Come to your Calvary still

               Bm
I'm bleeding and breaking until

              G#
I'm bleeding in spite of my warmth for you

              D#m
It bruised and bruised my will
[Verse 5]
G#
Come to me now with your pains

Bm
The breathing inside of the rage

G#
You touched me inside of my cage

D#m
Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me
[Verse 6]
G#
Come to me feathered and frayed

Bm
For I am the ugliest prey

G#
For I am the ugliest prey

D#m
Beyond the reckless, reckless raise
[Verse 7]
       G#
You said you'd wait for me

      Bm
Down by the tannery creek

       G#
Far out by the clothesline

       D#m
Where we used to kiss behind the sheets

        G#
Wrapped in a blanket of red

        Bm
The owl and the tanager sat

        G#
The owl and the tanager said

        D#m
One waits until the hour is death