The Mountain Goats – In The Shadow Of The Western Hills (Guitar)

 Dm             DmMaj7           G
Spread out the old maps on the floor

  C        B/C          Dm
Plot the course of the infection

  Dm          DmMaj7           G
Trace from its beginnings to the present

C        B/C                              Dm
Is there no one here who's making this connection?

C                      Dm
Feral cats out by the trashcans

         C                         Am
To the true believer everything's a sign

                                G
Scrape the pigments from the baseboards

Asus4     A           Dm
In the shadow of the western hills

Dm                         Bb   A
And paint my vision on my body

A                            Dm
In the shadow of the western hills

Dm             DmMaj7           G
Bleak rose-petal sky in two dimensions

C                   B/C                    Dm
Black tree line a blade that cuts across it all

Dm            DmMaj7                  G
Can't seem to sleep or find my appetite

C          B/C                  Dm
Since I got home from the hospital

G                    Dm
Call up Rebecca maybe try to explain

G
But she hangs up while I'm still talking

      Asus4           A
I walk out into the rain

Dm           DmMaj7            G
Wander from the alley to the darkness

C        B/C          Dm
Sink down completely leave no trace

Dm            DmMaj7            G
Trapped beneath the surface of the ice again

C                 B/C                Dm
Lie still with the moonlight on my face

C                                 Dm
Wait for the wolves to keep their promise

C                                  A
Listen for their footfalls on the snow

                                  G      Asus4
I can't hear things clearly to be honest

A                                Dm
In the shadow of the western hills

B                                  A
He gets most healed that waits the longest

                                  Dm
In the shadow of the western hills