Hey. This is my first tab. Sorry if it's not perfect, but it should at least be
close enough to sound like the song.
When I previewed my tab, it kept moving the chords around, so I don't even know
how off this is going to be. Sorry.
Capo on 3
C
It starts with you
G F
on a mattress in your parents' old room,
C
clipping your toenails into the room
F
like the room will fade
and you will move
C
onto other rooms
Em
and you will go
G
to other places.
C
Then the wedding,
G
Then the woman passed out
F
in the driver's seat
C
at the order board at White Castle.
F
We woke her up and she went
C Em
'round to the pick up window
G
like she knew exactly where she was.
C
Then I wept
G
with my face in your night shirt,
F
trying hard as hell to say
C F
"until death separates us,"
C
loosening the skin on your breastbone,
E
I painted your nails
G
and you sleep
while I write all this down.
C
There was a moth caught in the soapdish laminated in lye
Am
Will you still remember me well
C F
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
E G
my dead line Gemini
C G
When we're on different sides of the globe
F
I thought we'd keep our veins tangled
C
like a pair of mic cables,
F C
And if there ain't enough slack to reach
Em
that we'd solder them together
G
and across oceans they'd stretch.
C G
Our faces reflected in separate windshields
F
and all our body hair pricked up
C
an elephant eyelash.
F C
Should we be tempted by thief or saint
E
it seems I leave and you stay
G
to crawl the cage and curse.
C
But don't regret the done dirt,
G
there is no life plan set,
F
you just swallow the cold
C F
and follow your breath until death.
C
Now even if the will to sleep persists
Em G
I can't 'cause a harsh cloth, it grazes my blisters.
C
There was a moth caught in the soapdish laminated in lye
Am
Will you still remember me well
C F
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
E G
my dead line Gemini
C G
Today I fell asleep in a bath of hair.
F C
Hair that once sprouted from my own
F
white wet chalk follicles.
C
I swallow a coal
Em
and follow my breath
G
and I did it with the grapefruit soap
thinking of you.
C G
Bathed, shaved, and oiled,
F C
your legs are two skinny dolphins swimming
F C
between the mattress and the layers of bedding
Em G
turning in your drug dry sleep.
C G
When I ask you to kiss my pulse
F C
you offer to start the shower.
F C
I want a verb and you give me a noun.
Em G
What do you dream up while I tongue you down?
C
There was a moth caught in the soapdish laminated in lye
Am
Will you still remember me well
C F
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
E G
my dead line Gemini
C
You know my build.
You know my size.
G
The degree to which my eyes
Em
are astigmatic.
