VERSE:
F#m C#9 F#m
I watch the work of my kin bold and boyful
F#m C#9 F#m
Toying somewhere between love and abuse
E A
Calling to join them the wretched and joyful
F#m C#9 F#m
Shaking the wings of their terrible youths
VERSE:
F#m C#9 F#m
Freshly dissolved in some frozen devotion
F#m C#9 F#m
No more alone or myself could I be
E A
Looks like a strain to the arms it were open
F#m C#9 F#m
No shortage of sordid, no protest from me
CHORUS:
F#m A
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
E F#m
She’s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
F#m A
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
E F#m
She’s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
VERSE:
F#m C#9 F#m
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh, I
F#m C#9 F#m
Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet
E A
Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fur tires
F#m C#9 F#m
Bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE: [2 beats each]
F#m E A Bm D E A A
A F#m E D D C#9
(INSTRUMENTAL OF “VERSE”)
F#m F#m C#9 F#m
F#m F#m C#9 F#m
E A
F#m F#m C#9 F#m
VERSE:
F#m C#9 F#m
And lease this confusion, I’ll wander the concrete
F#m C#9 F#m
Wonder if better now having survived
E A
Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat
F#m C#9 F#m
The sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I’m alive
CHORUS (x2)
