(Sorry the chord changes don't line up with the words properly. Just change
chords when it feels like you should.)

--CAPO 1--

Intro Bassline:
Em               C
---------------- | ---------------- | 
---------------- | ---------------- | 
---------------- | ---------------- | 
---------------- | ---------------- | 
----2-----2----- | ----3-----3----- | 
0-----0-0---0-2- | 3-3---3-3---3-2- |    x4

Verse 1:

G                         D                              C
At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas


You pray to nothing out loud

G                    Em                      C
Two first names and an ampersand embroidered proudly on a kitchen towel


         G                      D                      C          D
You're a beautiful and violent work with the skinny neck of a Chinese bird

     G               D
in a fading ancient painting.

      Em               C                      G
And if you're in heaven waiting you made it there fighting

            D                        C            D
the tightest kite string in a bad storm with lightning.


Chorus:

      Em        G           C/E               Em/G
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket

C       Em/B        D     C      G/B       D
can persuade no god to let me let you talk.

      Em        G           C/E               Em/G
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket

C       G/B      D     C      G/B       D
can persuade no god to let me let you off.


G                  D
Even though I haven't seen you in years

C                  D          Em            D            C
yours is a funeral I'd fly to from anywhere.


Verse 2:

G                          D
I thought I had a pebble in my sock

Em                 C
I pulled it off and shook out a wasp

   G                      D
It stumbled out lost and without a pause

  Em                       C
unstung as I was, still I stomped it.


  Em                               C
I thought "There is no paved street worthy

      Em                   C
of your perfect Scandinavian feet."

Em                      C
My crooked chinese fingers groped

Em               C                  D
  the machinery of your throat.


                  Em
Repeat Chorus, end on "anywhere."