The Lawrence Arms – The Raw And Searing Flesh (Guitar)

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Em - 022000 D - xx0232 Cmaj7 - x32000 C - x32010 Bm - x24432 A5 - x022xx G - 320033 G/F# - 200033 [Verse]
   Em            D
I never want to see you

Cmaj7                   Bm    A5
In the raw and searing flesh

         Em           D
I don't ever want to hear you

Cmaj7                  G    G/F#
Singing softly to the dead

   Em            D
I never want to feel your skin

Cmaj7              Bm     A5
Running warm along my side

         Em           D
I don't ever want to sink that way again

Cmaj7                  G   G/F#
It would be easier to die

    Em   Cmaj7  Em  Cmaj7
To die
[Verse]
     Em                         D
I'm tending the pyres of my frustrations

Cmaj7
Burning leaves on buried dreams

Bm              A5
Kneeling in to rake the ashes

Em                              D
I'm embering. You're smoldered out.

                                 C
My hands are free, my lungs are proud

         G             G/F#   C
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction

         G             G/F#   C
Your forgiveness is a fading fiction
[Chorus]
       G           D           Em
These flames have never burned so high

G           D          C
I won't be staring in your eyes
[Interlude] Em Cmaj7 (x2) [Bridge]
     Em                   D
I'm trying hard not to remember

Cmaj7                                Bm   A5
The way the smoke drifts through the air

      Em                  D
We'll all be dead come November

Cmaj7                     G     G/F#
Four months out of every year

       Em
Every year

       Cmaj7
(Every year)

       Em
Every year

       Cmaj7
(Every year)
[Chorus]
Em          D          Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes

Em          D          Cmaj7
I won't be staring in your eyes

Em  D      Cmaj7
.......In your eyes

Em  D      Cmaj7
.......In your eyes

   Em     D     Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)

   Em     D     Cmaj7
Every year (in your eyes)
[Outro] Em D Cmaj7 (x3)