Updated with the official lyrics from Polyvinyl.
Here are some of the weirder chords in the song and how
Kevin (most likely) plays them:
CMaj7 (X35450)
FMaj7 (X33550)
Edim7 (XX1212)
G#aug (XX6554)
Am (XX7555)
B A C A
F G F C D E
E F# G
I do wrong, strictly speaking, just for myself, because it
E F# G
Makes me feel like a real man to hold hegemony over my biznezzz, and I
Dm C CMaj7 FMaj7
I refuse to be abused by the milieu of wistful decay
D E F F/E F/D
Besides I'm used to all of my scruples deserting me
F/Db C E7
Like they've done today
B A
The lady from the block hunched over on the stoop
C A
With her withered old titty out,
F G F
Sayin' I've been rolled so many times, it's just
C
Feeding the pigeons
B
Now her grandson swings a little rabbit by the leg
A C A
While his mother's playing two wooden flutes
F G F
I went to repo some fugitive air
C D E
To escape this street's vagary aesthetic
E
Has anybody here seen my old friend Blob?
F# G
Oh, has anybody seen where he's gone?
E
What he thinks I owe him is his former life
F# G
But how can I unmake someone else's mistakes?
Dm C
I guess I was his anti-hero
CMaj7 FMaj7
The bitter word on his lips
D E
I hope I never feel a terror like
F F/E F/D F/Db C E7
When you've discovered your autonomy had flipped
C Edim7 F
I feel like I possess only the bad aspects
Edim7 G F C E7
Of invisibility, but none of the good ones
C Edim7 F
Are we walking mausoleums of scented rotting flesh?
Edim7 G
Mother always liked you best
F C
Liked your teeth upon her breast
C Edim7 F
They removed the oils from the eyes of street cats
Edim7 G
Through some shitty witchcraft
F C E7
And apply it to their brows and genitalia
C Edim7 F
I had no idea how deeply I wounded you
Edim7 G
But I don't need no forgiveness
F C E7
And no level of contrition will ever do
C Edim7 F Edim7 G F C E7
C Edim7 F Edim7 G F C
C C C/G G#aug Am G#aug F FMaj7 CMaj7
Notes:
The "C D E" in the intro and fourth verse is played barred
at the 3rd, 5th, and 7th frets, but it sounds great if you
drop down to the open E shape for the "E F# G" that follows.
I know the F/Db sounds weird, but I was able to isolate the
acoustic guitar track, and that's what he's playing. Focus
on the descending root notes on the A and E strings like he does.
