The Lawrence Arms – Belly Of The Whale (Guitar)

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Skeleton Coast 2020 Epitaph Records Submitted by: [email protected] Chords used: C - x32010 G - 320003 Am - x02210 F - 133211 [Verse 1]
     C
If I wasn't just one kid
standing on another kid's
G
shoulders in a trench coat

      F
you'd be in trouble buddy.

   C
If I was an innertube rolling

                   G
down the quad city river
in the Summer I'd be
F
hauling something tubby
[Verse 2]
       C
To the coast where the bones
peek up like the ship ribs
  G
I played hide and seek with

    F
the bleach boned kids

     C
They asked who I was
and so I ran and hid.
     G
They asked who I was

         F          F
and so I ran and hid.
[Chorus 1]
       C            G
In the belly of the whale

       F
with a candle and a pen

       C            G
In the belly of the whale

       F
with a candle and a pen

         Am       C
And it's my lucky day

         G          F
when the tide rolls in

    C      G
The new ribcages of

    F             F
the dead young men
[Verse 3]
C               G
  Mandibles and bows and sterns

Am               G
Captains that it seems ain't

F                   C
never gonna learn I gotta go

             G
back I don't care if it was

             Am       G
killing me I gotta go back

         F
you're unbearable like this
[Verse 4]
  C        G           F
I gotta go back cuz goddamnit

               C
you're right I didn't wanna

G               F
wake up in this place tonight

C         G       F
Now all I hear is bitching

            C
and moaning Fools barely

G               F
keeping up with where

                 F    F
they're come and going
[Guitar Solo] C G Am G F x2 [Bridge]
     Am
This tired argument is the

G                    F
only one you've ever known

    Am
I'm gonna get going my

G
path is a showing

       C    G   F
It's a long way home
[Chorus 2/Outro]
       C            G
To the belly of the whale

       F
with a candle and a pen

       C            G
To the belly of the whale

       F
with a candle and a pen

         Am       C
And it's my lucky day

         G          F
when the tide rolls in

    C      G
The new ribcages of

    F
the dead young men I write

    C      G
The new ribcages of

    F
the dead young men yeah

    C      G
The new ribcages of

    F
the dead young men come out

    Am     G
The new ribcages of

    F
the dead young men

    C      G
The new ribcages of

    F    G     C  C
the dead young men