Em
(Verse)
EmAm
Bring me birds with broken wings, Men with all the answers,
BEm
People who have killed,Give me incurable cancers.
EmAm
Bring me beaches slicked in oil, Give me disregard for doubt,
BEm
Street lights shine on broken Roads where no one is about.
EmAm
I want that hopeless green depression, Punishments without a cause,
BEm
Give me impotent obsession, And disregard for laws.
EmAm
I want the trees in single file, Bring the corpse of something rare,
BEm
Show me children who are sinners, Show me mounds of human hair.
(Chorus)
AmEm
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son,
AmEm
An angel tried to stop me with a ram,
AmEm
Well he said “your mind’s infected”, But I said “you lack perspective”,
B
You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top,
EmAmBEm
La da da da, La da da da, La da da da da da da da da da
EmAmBEm
La da da da, La da da da, La da da da da da da da da da
(Verse)
EmAm
Give me poison I can swim in, Water I can’t drink,
BEm
Wheels that won’t stop spinning, Teach my children not to think.
EmAm
I want the fruit that tastes like nothing, extra thumbs for every crook,
BEm
Give me lessons without questions, a mild disdain for books.
EmAm
Give me metaphors unraveled, Poetry defined,
BEm
Bring me the head of Dionysius, But please don’t spill out the wine.
EmAm
Trade the future for the present, Trade me ashes for my history,
BEm
I don’t need to look inside,I know the answer to the mystery.
(Ends with this harmonic:)
E|--12+--|
B|--12+--|
G|--12+--|
D|-------|
A|-------|
E|-------|
(Chorus)
AmEm
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son,
AmEm
An angel tried to stop me with a ram,
AmEm
Well he said “your mind’s infected”, But I said “you lack perspective”,
B
You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top,
EmAmBEm
La da da da, La da da da, La da da da da da da da da da
EmAmBEm
La da da da, La da da da, La da da da da da da da da da
(Bridge)
CEm
Oh I know they call me crazy,
CEm
But there will be no turning back,
AmEm
I don’t care if things get ugly.
B
Once the word of god is spoken,
B
There’s no way to take it back,
(Solo)
E|-7----------------|-8----------------|
B|---8-------7-8----|---8-------7-8----|
G|-----9-8-9-----9--|-----9-8-9-----9--|
D|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|E|----------7-6h7p6------------------------------|
B|-----7-------------8-7-8-7h8p7---------7-8-----|
G|-8-9----------------------------9-8-9-------9--|
D|-------9---------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|E|-7----------------|-8----------------|
B|---8-------7-8----|---8-------7-8----|
G|-----9-8-9-----9--|-----9-8-9-----9--|
D|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|BAmEmAmEmAmEmB
Oh La da da da da, La da da da dadi da da da da, La da da dadi da da da da da dada daaaa
(Chorus)
AmEm
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son,
AmEm
An angel tried to stop me with a ram,
AmEm
Well he said “your mind’s infected”, But I said “you lack perspective”,
B
You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top,
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|