Standard Tuning Capo on 2nd fret Relative to capo Intro: D5 | -------1--1------1--1---------1--1--------1--1------1--1------1--3------------- | | -------3--3------3--3---------3--3--------3--3------3--3------3--1------------- | | ---2---2---------2------------0------0h3--3-----3---3-----0---0-----0h2-0------ | | -------0-----0---0-----0-2-3--3--------------------------------------------3--- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | --------1--1------1--1---------1--1--------1--1------1--1------1--3------------- | | --------3--3------3--3---------3--3--------3--3------3--3------3--1------------- | | --------2---------2------------0------0h3--3-----3---3-----0---0-----0h2-0------ | | ----0---0---------0-----0-2-3--3--------------------------------------------3--- | | --------------0----------------------------------------------------------------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | D5 | ----1--1----1--1-- | | ----3--3----3--3-- | | ----2-------2----- | x2 | -0--0-------0----- | | ---------0-------- | | ------------------ | Bb5 | ------------------ | | ----3--3----3--3-- | | ----3--3----3--3-- | x2 | ----3-------3----- | | -1-------1-------- | | ------------------ | C5 | ------------------ | | ----1--1----1--1-- | | ----0--0----0--0-- | x2 | ----2-------2----- | | 0h3-------2------- | | ------------------ | D5 Bb5 My family does own some land where the river is wide C5 Bb5 At night I see my memories dimly dying on the other side D5 Bb5 I know that I am now all bitterness and tart C5 D5 Bb5 Anatomy to me is a homesick stomach and a broken heart D5 Bb5 You rest-stops in the midnight are like friends I've worn to bone C5 Bb5 I only notice that you're glowing when I'm feeling so ever alone D5 Bb5 Drunken with the children now too many times to complain C5 D5 Trustful was the mouth I turned into a lustful sopping hole and Bb5 Now it's nothing but a bathtub drain D5 Bb5 The latter days are harder than I ever could've known C5 D5 Come back to retrieve me sometime soon D5 Bb5 If the latter days are ending then I hope I'm ending too C5 Bb5 And buried someplace where your breath tastes new to me and D5 Always blowing, so my body's bent and bowing Bb5 C5 Deep into the day's ending in summer Bb5 C5 The latter days are always panting like a second-comer D5 Bb5 All the fleshy statues of the city-square goodbyes C5 Bb5 Are flinging smooth-skin trinities and nakedness up into my eyes D5 Bb5 Naked swan-necked girls, your arching backs into the sun C5 D5 The highway ditch's black clouds split the median and Bb5 Breathing in of all the ribs of every bathing one D5 And in those trash-pit-ponds you bathe and Bb5 Oh, how you all gleam C5 Mindlessly bright where you're wet in Bb5 Your eye-lashing, fluid-splashing, rapid-flashing D5 Canal-bleaching dream For me
