Navigating The Windward Passage

Lawrence Arms
Navigating The Windward Passage
Apathy And Exhaustion
2002
Submitted by: [email protected]

Key: E

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
E -   022100
B -   x24442
C#m - x46654
A -   x02220


Intro: E--C#m-A-B-C#m-A-- x2, B-- x2


Verse 1:
E         C#m
  drinking   deathwish
B             A
  nights can't save
    E
this glasseyed
C#m
   slackjaws
B            A
  scream from safe
     E
homes i've got
C#m         B
   it wrong time
          A
and again song
          E
after song you've
   C#m
got   answers
B
killing to please
A
swooning disasters


Refrain 1:
   C#m       B
so inventory me drop 
   A
me in your fishbowl
    C#m      B
i'm dying to breathe
             A
through your tight
           B
pigeon hole a dead
            A
man in dead dreams 


Chorus 1:
         B
when i'm gone you
      C#m
won't miss me
       B
you're dying to
     A  E
fist me out of
    C#m
the closet and
B        A
into the fire
E            C#m
out of these dumb
       B
little quips 
        A
that inspire
E        B
outright outrage 
  C#m       A
enrages you now
       E
you're lifeless 
     C#m   B
and sticky kicking
     A
dead cows fuck
    E    C#m A E C#m A B B
you sound


Verse 2:
E
   one shot
C#m
   all wrong 
B
   one lie
A
   all gone
E
   cry for 
C#m
   yourselves
B
   i'll die with
A
   my own help
E
   these words
C#m
   are mine and
     B
this grave that we
      A
share time after
    E
time chokes my
C#m
   life out while
B
you ask yourselves
         A
what i'm crying about


Refrain 2:
           C#m
well these tears that
    B           A
are falling are wetting
               C#m
deaf ears. you cry for
     B            A
your protests and say
               C#m
i don't care i couldn't
     B            A
care less I don't have
             C#m
so are you I couldn't
     B
care less if you're
  A
repulsed through
           B
and through a dead
            A
man in dead dreams


Chorus 2:
         B
when i'm gone you
      C#m
won't miss me
       B
you're dying to
     A  E
fist me out of
    C#m
the closet and
B        A
into the fire
E            C#m
out of these dumb
       B
little quips 
        A
that inspire
E        B
outright outrage 
  C#m       A
enrages you now
       E
you're lifeless 
     C#m   B
and sticky kicking
     A
dead cows fuck
    E    B C#m A E B C#m A
you sound


Interlude:
E--C#m-A-B-C#m-A-- x2


Bridge: Slower beat
E           B
  when it's all said
    A   E
and done did you
            B
really think that
    A
you were the only
one? you were
C#m    B
here before you
          E
you'll be here
B           A
when you're gone
 A
another lemming
B               A
humming protest song


Interlude: Fast beat again
B--C#m--B--A--A(hold)


Chorus 3:
E          C#m
out of the closet
    B        A
and into the fire
E            C#m
out of these dumb
       B
little quips 
        A
that inspire
E        B
outright outrage 
  C#m       A
enrages you now
       E
you're lifeless 
     C#m   B
and sticky kicking
     A
dead cows fuck
    E    B C#m A
you sound
         E    B C#m A
fuck you sound
         E    B C#m A E B C#m A
fuck you sound


Outro:
E---C#m-B-A-B-E(hold)