The Beths – Mosquitoes (Guitar)

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Chords

Chords are played barred in verses
C 8-10-10-9-8-8
F x-8-10-10-10-8
Am 5-7-7-5-5-5
[Intro] C F [Verse]
          C
There's a creek I would walk to

        F
When my house felt like a locked room

        Am
Lean on little wooden bridges

          F
Watch the eels playing cool

        C
I could walk a little further

         F
Down the dirt path on the shoulder

       Am                        F
To the biggest waterfall my city limits could produce
[Pre-chorus]
        Dm
Boy, it fell

Em      F
Kept on falling

       Dm                   Em   F
Biting down, carving rock, slow erosion
[Chorus]
       G           F
Lay me here on the stone

         G               F
I'm only here to feed mosquitoes

     G          F
Only skin, only blood

         G                   F
A little less now than there was
[Verse]
   C
In January '23

    F
The creek became a raging sea

  Am
A great torrential flood that ripped

    F
The bridges from the banks

    C
The soft slope of the valley

         F
Ravaged, cracked and wounded badly

       Am
Fallen giants breathing heavily

 F
Across the severed track
[Pre-chorus]
     G
They fell

       F
Stayed fallen

      G
Roots exposed, reaching high

            F
Something's growing
[Chorus]
       G            F
Lay me here, by the bones

         G            F
I'm only here to feed mosquitoes

    G           F
Only skin, only blood

         G                   F
A little less now than there was

        G                    F
A little less now than there was
[Solo] G F G F G F C F C F [Verse]
        C
I still go, it's been a year now

         F
Past the chain link fence that keeps out

         Am
With the bridges all still blown out

          F
You can't amble anymore

C
Overgrown, abandoned

       F
I take off my shoes to cross and

         Am
Find the current has forgotten

       F
How it felt to break the world
[Pre-chorus]
         G
And if I fall

     F
I'll fall in

        G                      F
Soaking wet, ruined pride, Tui laughing
[Chorus]
            G            F
So leave me here, let me go

         G               F
I'm only here to feed mosquitoes

     G          F
Only skin, only blood

         G                   F
A little less now than there was just

         G           F
Leave me here, on my own

       G                   F
I only breathe to feed the ego

     G           F
Only flesh, only blood

            C              F
I'm letting go of what I'm not

         C                   F
A little less now than there was

         C                   F
A little less now than there was