Backyard Skulls - Frightened Rabbit
Album: Pedestrian Verse (2013)
Intro
Am G F E G (F)
Verse 1
C G
All our secrets are smothered in dirt, underneath paving stones
Am Em
Lying waiting to be told
C
Some stay hidden, while some get found
G Am Em
Like a long lost soul, like a skull beneath the ground
Chorus
F G C F
Backyard skulls, deep beneath the ground
Am F C G
All those backyard skulls, not deep enough to never be found
Am G F E G (F)
Verse 2
C
Here lies the first time that I was wrong
G Am Em
There is no sign, no X's mark the spot
C
The ancient encounters with foreign skin
G Am Em
All but perished by now, guess you can't erase the grin from those
Chorus
F G C F
Backyard skulls, deep beneath the ground
Am F C G
All those backyard skulls, not deep enough to never be found
Bridge
Am F C
From the patio doors, lie century upon century
D F C
The skulls untold, has hushed this suburban adultery
Am F C
And below our homes and underneath the lawns we keep
D F C
White silent skulls, smiling at the hypocrisy
Chorus
F G C F
Backyard skulls, deep beneath the ground
Am F C G
All those backyard skulls, not deep enough to never be found
F G C F
Backyard skulls, deep beneath the ground
Am F C G
All those backyard skulls, not deep enough to never be found
Ending
F G
Deep enough to never be found
F G
Deep enough to never be found
F G
F G
C - end
