G: 320003
Dm: xx0231
Dsus: xx0233
A: x02220
D: xx0232
NOTE: For all of the F chords, he only plays the full chord (133211) when he says "In
eyes" for the second time. I've
marked it with a *. All the other F chords are played like this: x03211.
INTRO:
*It's basically just chords, but I included all the picked notes too*
AmCFE|------0---------------1-----0-------0----|
B|-----1---------1------1---------1--------|
G|----2----------0---0--2-------2----------|
D|---2------2-0--2---0--3---3-------3------|
A|--0-------0----3---3---------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|CGDmDsusE|--------0--------------1-----3-----3---3-------|
B|--------1-----0---0-0--3-----3-----3---3-------|
G|-----0----0---0---0-0--2---2-2-------2---2-----|
D|--0--2----2-0-0---0-0--0---0-0-------0---0-----|
A|--3--3----3-2-2--------------------------------|
E|--------------3--------------------------------|
FIRST VERSE:
AmCFCGDmDsusDm
A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls.
AmCFCGDmDsus
A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall.
FIRST CHORUS:
Dm
He says
CGDmF
“there’s plenty of time to make you mine tonight,
CGDm
there’s plenty of time to make you mine.”
He says
CGDm
“there’s plenty of ways to know you’re not dying,
F
all right.
CGDm
Hell, there’s plenty of light still left in your eyes.”
F*
In your eyes.
FIRST PD- VERSE:
AmCFCGDm
SECOND VERSE:
AmCFC
A black sheep boy grows horns,
GDm
breathing smoke through his microphone.
AmCFCDm
The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason.
SECOND CHORUS:
He says
CGDmF
“there’s plenty of things to wear when you come to me,
CGDm
every color of sleeve to be rolled.
CGDmF
There are millions of rolling eyes that still cling to me.
CGDm
Every language of king is concerned.
BRIDGE:
Am
So why
Dm
did you bawl
GDA
from the spell of some old holy song
GDA
that some liar laughed as he composed,
GDA
some liar I loved to control?”
SECOND PD- VERSE:
*I included both the chords and the faint guitar in the background*
AmCFCGDsusE|-------------1--1---1----|--0-----------1---1---1-3----3-3--|
B|-------------1--1---1----|----3-1-0-----3---3---3-3----3-3--|
G|-------------2----2---2--|----------2-0-2-----2---2----2-2--|
D|---------0-2-3----3---3--|--------------0-----0--------0-0--|
A|--0--2-3-----------------|----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------|----------------------------------|AmCFCGDsusE|-------------1--1---1----|--0---------------1---1-3--|
B|-------------1--1---1----|----3-1-0---------3---3-3--|
G|-------------2----2---2--|----------2-0-2-----2---2--|
D|---------0-2-3----3---3--|--------------------0---0--|
A|--0--2-3-----------------|---------------------------|
E|-------------------------|---------------------------|
THIRD VERSE:
*For the first 4 lines there's no guitar, but the bass copies the notes the guitar would
playing*
AmCFAm
A black sheep boy dissolves
CFAm
in hot cream, in sweet moans,
CFAm
in each dead bed and empty home,
CFAm
in each seething bacterium.
CF
Killing softly and serial,
CGDm
he lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial.
CGDm
He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria.
CGDm
He’s the thrill of the abecedarian.
CGDm
(See the muddy hoofprints where he carried yo
THIRD CHORUS:
CGDmF
And there’s plenty of ways to claim his crimes tonight,
CGDm
and there’s plenty of things to do on his dime.
CGDmF
And there’s plenty of ways to wear his hide tonight.
CGDm
You’ve got yours and I’ve got mine.
CGDm
You’ve got yours and I’ve got mine.
OUTRO:
Dm
So why
Am
did you flee?
GDA
Don’t you know you can’t leave his control
GDA
only call all his wild works your own?
GDA
So come back and we’ll take them all on.
GDA
So come back to your life on the lam.
GDA
So come back to your old black sheep man.
He says
GDA
“I am waiting on hoof and on hand.
GDA
I am waiting, all hated and damned.
GDA
I am waiting, I snort and I stamp.
GDAD
I am waiting, you know that I am,
GDA
calmly waiting to make you my lamb”