The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet (Guitar)

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[Intro] Am Am/C Am Am/C G Am Am/C Am Am/C G Ebmaj7 Dm7 G Am Am/C Am Am/C G [Verse 1]
Am      Am/C    Am         Am/C   G
Made my bed  in drought of barrel

Am        Am/C      Am       Am/C  G  Ebmaj7
I haven't shot this thing in years

Dm7               G    Am    Am/C Am Am/C G
     Do you think I'll fold?

Am        Am/C     Am   Am/C G
Calloused hands of detriment

       Am       Am/C      Am      Am/C G Ebmaj7
From a crossbow flinch of gasping air

Dm7               G
     Do you think I'll…
[Chorus]
Am             G
Solomon, don't fall apart

    Bb                        Dm
The words have made a perfect burden

Am            G
Solomon, your hollow heart

    Bb                    Dm
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
[Interlude] Am Am/C Am Am/C G [Verse 2]
   Am           Am/C       Am      Am/C   G
Prenatal at the hips where we once joined

Am             Am/C         Am      Am/C  G Ebmaj7
Severed by the scalpel when we were young

Dm7          G    Am   Am/C Am Am/C G
Do you think I'll fold?

Am             Am/C       Am         Am/C   G
Held under the water in a breathless trough

Am            Am/C    Am         Am/C  G Ebmaj7
Buried in the plot of your front steps

Dm7               Am   Am/C Am Am/C G
Do you think I'll fold?

  Am           Am/C       Am       Am/C   G
Incinerate the faith that you were taught

  Am            Am/C     Am      Am/C  G Ebmaj7
Incinerate your crone of useless flesh

Dm7          G
Do you think that
[Chorus]
Am7            G7
Solomon, don't fall apart

    Bbmaj7                    Dm
The words have made a perfect burden

Am7           G7
Solomon, your hollow heart

    Bbmaj7                Dm
A nomadic void of halcyon youth

Am7            G7
Solomon, don't fall apart

    Bbmaj7                    Dm
The words have made a perfect burden

Am7           G7
Solomon, your hollow heart

    Bbmaj7                Dm
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
[Bridge]
Dm              C                Dbdim7
    And in this life you long to flee

        Bbdim7             Gm
You can stop the rain from falling

       F          D/A
Tie it on in your mind

                   Dm
It's your Noctourniquet

            C            Dbdim7
And in your file will it read

         Bbdim7          Gm
That you caved it to the night?

       F          D/A
Tie it on in your mind

                   Bb   C
It's your Noctourniquet
[Interlude] Am [Verse 3]
Am
Made my bed in drought of barrel

Am                                   C
I haven't shot this thing in years

G/B                   Am
    Do you think I'll fold?

  Am               Am/C           Am      Am/C   G
Bucolic hymns that frolic on your hissing tongue

    Am         Am/C              Am      Am/C  G Ebmaj7
The rivalry of siblings cut from saffron cloth

Dm7          G    Am   Am/C Am Am/C G
Do you think I'll fold?

     Am                      Am/C              Am       Am/C   G
I'll reach right through the pavement with the shortest straw

Am           Am/C          Am       Am/C  G Ebmaj7
Never a dull blade in your mother's drawer

Dm7          G    Am   Am/C Am Am/C G
Do you think I'll fold?

Am              Am/C       Am      Am/C   G
Place it in the thirst her endless flask

    Am         Am/C        Am         Am/C  G Ebmaj7
The iridescent poison will quench foreboding

Dm7          G
Do you think that
[Chorus]
Am7            G7
Solomon, don't fall apart

    Bbmaj7                    Dm
The words have made a perfect burden

Am7           G7
Solomon, your hollow heart

    Bbmaj7                Dm
A nomadic void of halcyon youth

Am7            G7
Solomon, don't fall apart

    Bbmaj7                    Dm
The words have made a perfect burden

Am7           G7
Solomon, your hollow heart

   Bbmaj7                   Dm                       Am
No matter what it takes, no matter what it takes for you