• Song:

    Hot Knives

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    Cassadaga (Internationa...

Standard Tuning:EADGBe
 A                         D       A                   D
The Wife forgave the mistress for she only entertained 
A                            D     A       
The Pain was gone the instant She Cleared Her throat to speak her  
      D 
name
F#m                             D              A
said,both of us must suffer the same unending fate  A,D 2x
A                           D            A                   D     
The world was not of interest though her days were never dull
A                           D   A                          D
Her bed beneath the crucifix on guests preforming miracles 
F#m                                        D                        
With the son of god just hanging like the common criminal
Bm                       D                      A,D 2x
When I do wrong I am with God.......she thought
Bm                 D             A D x2
When I feel lost I am not at all
Bm                 D
So give me Black Lights (give give me) 
Bm               D
So give me hot knives (deep clean sleep)
Bm                                D
On the dance floor no one tells time (there is no time)
Bm                                   D             A,D 2x
Oh, ive made love yeah Ive been fucked.....so what  (strum softly)
Bm                      D                    A,D 2x
im a cartoon your a full moon lets stay up
A                      D          A                 D      
She went to see a mystic who made medicine from rain
A                       D         A                              D  
And gave up her existance to feel every thing dream others dreams
F#m                              D               A,D 2x
Bid farewell to her family with one extatic wave
Bm                         D          A,D
out the window as the car rolled away
Bm                         D                  A,D 2x
she just vanished into a thick mist of change
Bm
So let us rejoice (lets rejoice)
               D
with all this pink noise (our pink noise)
    Bm                      D
an oscillation that we can pin point(were right here)
Bm     Dm (over and over again) end on:A
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