The Lawrence Arms – The Corpses Of Our Motivations (Guitar)

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Lawrence Arms Apathy And Exhaustion 2002 Submitted by: [email protected] Key: E Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: E - 022100 B - x24442 C#m - x46654 A - x02220 Intro: E-- x4 Verse 1:

C#m
   catching up

all of them in the

A
basement that i call

B   C#m
home   dismantling

discussions on a

A               B
piss soaked telephone

        E
i'm all grown up

     C#m
i've thrown up these

B
feelings lots

  A           E
before you're sitting

       C#m
in the park while

     B
i'm staring at

    A
the door

Verse 2:

 C#m
enough self mutilation

     A
i've waterlogged and

B        C#m
choked a hundred beers

                A
another week ensconced

           B
in yellow smoke 

       E            C#m
i'm no devil i just have

             B
these demons keeping me

 A    E             C#m
awake pushing on my go-leg

B               A
laughing at cut brakes

    B
the corpses of my motivation

A            B
hangs in the closet

next to skeletons and

A              B    B
bloody vampire banks

Chorus 1:

 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink

           A
your life away it's

 C#m         E
another step closer to

    B              A
the comfort of the grave

     C#m
this coffin's full

   E     B
of nails rails

             A
and pipe and glass

A             B
rotting under yellow

        E    B E A E B E A
growing grass

Verse 3:

C#m
   five in the chamber and

    A
i'm flying through the

B        C#m
air i've tied my blindfold

            A          B
tightly i'm cutting my hair

      E            C#m
i'm a bullet and a target

        B
and i'm drenched in splattered

A          E
blood i've learned my lesson

C#m          B           A
one time but once isn't enough

Verse 4:

            C#m
so dry your hands

wash them clean

A                  B
wash them clean of me

C#m
wave your victor's flag

        A         B
on your pile of debris 

                 E
because when you die like

  C#m      B
a hero you live like a

 A               E
slave i'd rather die to

       C#m
see it change than live

    B
and watch it stay

    A              B
the same where the corpses

                  A
of my motivations hang on

       B
on the gallows over ripe

               A         B
with shit like colostomy bags

Chorus 2:

        C#m
I will Sleep

    E   B
all day drink

           A
your life away it's

 C#m         E
another step closer to

    B              A
the comfort of the grave

     C#m
this coffin's full

   E     B
of nails rails

             A
and pipe and glass

A             B
rotting under yellow

        C#m  A B x4
growing grass

Bridge:

A           B            C#m
  there's a party in the woods

                 B   A
and a dance in city streets

      B               C#m
and a rumble down the avenue

                   B       A
of fifty thousand stomping feet

        B               C#m
and the fire is getting high

                   B     A
igniting sweaty powdered brows

          B                E
and if he hasn't saved you yet

         B              A  B A B
he isn't gonna save you now

Chorus 3: Slower Beat

 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink

           A
your life away it's

 C#m         E
another step closer to

    B              A
the comfort of the grave

 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink

           A
your life away it's

 C#m         E
another step closer to

    B              A
the comfort of the grave

 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink

           A
your life away it's

 C#m         E
another step closer to

    B              A
the comfort of the grave

Outro:

                E
and you're more beautiful

     B               A
than you were on the day

                     A
that we first met my angel

       B              E(hold)
of the not yet buried dead