The Corpses Of Our Motivations

Lawrence Arms
The Corpses Of Our Motivations
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-- x4


Verse 1:
C#m
   catching up
all of them in the
A
basement that i call
B   C#m
home   dismantling
discussions on a
A               B
piss soaked telephone
        E
i'm all grown up
     C#m
i've thrown up these
B
feelings lots
  A           E
before you're sitting
       C#m
in the park while
     B
i'm staring at
    A
the door 


Verse 2:
 C#m
enough self mutilation
     A
i've waterlogged and
B        C#m
choked a hundred beers
                A
another week ensconced
           B
in yellow smoke 
       E            C#m
i'm no devil i just have
             B
these demons keeping me
 A    E             C#m
awake pushing on my go-leg
B               A
laughing at cut brakes
    B
the corpses of my motivation
A            B
hangs in the closet
next to skeletons and
A              B    B
bloody vampire banks


Chorus 1:
 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink
           A
your life away it's
 C#m         E
another step closer to
    B              A
the comfort of the grave
     C#m
this coffin's full
   E     B
of nails rails
             A
and pipe and glass
A             B
rotting under yellow
        E    B E A E B E A
growing grass


Verse 3:
C#m
   five in the chamber and
    A
i'm flying through the
B        C#m
air i've tied my blindfold
            A          B
tightly i'm cutting my hair
      E            C#m
i'm a bullet and a target
        B
and i'm drenched in splattered
A          E
blood i've learned my lesson
C#m          B           A
one time but once isn't enough


Verse 4: 
            C#m
so dry your hands
wash them clean 
A                  B
wash them clean of me
C#m
wave your victor's flag
        A         B
on your pile of debris 
                 E
because when you die like
  C#m      B
a hero you live like a
 A               E
slave i'd rather die to
       C#m
see it change than live
    B
and watch it stay
    A              B
the same where the corpses
                  A
of my motivations hang on
       B
on the gallows over ripe
               A         B
with shit like colostomy bags 


Chorus 2:
        C#m
I will Sleep
    E   B
all day drink
           A
your life away it's
 C#m         E
another step closer to
    B              A
the comfort of the grave
     C#m
this coffin's full
   E     B
of nails rails
             A
and pipe and glass
A             B
rotting under yellow
        C#m  A B x4
growing grass


Bridge:
A           B            C#m
  there's a party in the woods
                 B   A
and a dance in city streets
      B               C#m
and a rumble down the avenue
                   B       A
of fifty thousand stomping feet
        B               C#m
and the fire is getting high
                   B     A
igniting sweaty powdered brows
          B                E
and if he hasn't saved you yet
         B              A  B A B
he isn't gonna save you now


Chorus 3: Slower Beat
 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink
           A
your life away it's
 C#m         E
another step closer to
    B              A
the comfort of the grave
 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink
           A
your life away it's
 C#m         E
another step closer to
    B              A
the comfort of the grave
 C#m      E   B
Sleep all day drink
           A
your life away it's
 C#m         E
another step closer to
    B              A
the comfort of the grave


Outro:
                E
and you're more beautiful
     B               A
than you were on the day
                     A
that we first met my angel
       B              E(hold)
of the not yet buried dead