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