The Lawrence Arms
Acheron River
Metropol
2014
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: C

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
C -  x32010
G -  320003
Am - x02210
F -  133211


Verse 1:
     C
It's an inorganic rehash
                   F
of a process so profound
       C
It's a thousand freshly
sharpened stakes dug
              F
deep into the ground
         F
It's the heads of all
                   G
dissenters and the distant
          Am  F
plume of smoke And I
           G       C    G C
hope those fuckers choke


Verse 2:
        C
Did you hear the dead
                G
decaying circus lumbering
 F            C
ahead Did you see the
starving elephants or
        G            F
did you turn away instead
    F
Man I'm so high and
                G
lonesome at the bottom
       Am  Am
of the hill  Never thought
    F
I'd lose it but it's
G              C
looking like I will


Chorus 1:
   C
So get out get out get out
                       G
the ropes get out the stones
              F   C
and let's get low Get out
get out get out the way
        G                F
I'm drowning this mortal soul
Am                  G
Take me down to the river take
      C
me to where all the poisons
F G
go And let's ride that
       F      G    C G C
fucker home woah woah


Verse 3:
C
  Season seven of the worst
     G              F
show that I've ever seen
 C
Starts around eleven and
      G              F
it's stars all weary me
    Am
Cuz I don't try to shake
            F
shit up and I don't
bitch or give a fuck
Am
I'm just on the train
                F
that's stuck in several
         F(hold)
thousand different ruts Well


Verse 4:
C
  It's the part where
            Am
everybody's drinking
G       F  C
just to die And the point
where everyone's got
Am        G         F
bloodshot blackened eyes
C
Here's the fucking
        Am   G    F
spoiler everybody dies
G
  You fuck it hard
all goddamn night
       F
You're goddamn right
       G
you're goddamn right


Chorus 2:
   C
So get out get out get out
                       G
the ropes get out the stones
              F   C
and let's get low Get out
get out get out the way
        G                F
I'm drowning this mortal soul
Am                  G
Take me down to the river take
      C
me to where all the poisons
F G
go And let's ride that
       F      G
fucker home woah


Guitar Solo: C--G-F- x2


Bridge:
   Am
Oh baby if I'm dying can
               F
I have another round
Am
  I know but I want one
        G       C       F
even if I don't need it now
    Am
I'm dying high and lonesome
       G            F
at the ending of my days


Chorus 1:
   C
So get out get out get out
                       G
the ropes get out the stones
              F   C
and let's get low Get out
get out get out the way
        G                F
I'm drowning this mortal soul
Am                  G
Take me down to the river take
      C
me to where all the poisons
F G F          G
go   And let's ride that
       C   G F C G F C G F C G F C(hold)
fucker home