How I Left The Ministry
View chords used in this chart
Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
Adapted from tMG's Wiki
"How I Left the Ministry"
The Extra Lens
Undercard
Transcribed by Jon A.
E - 022100
B - x24442
A - x02220
G#m - 466444
[Intro]
e|-----------------|-------------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------------|
G|-9---8---6-------|-9-8-6-9-8-6-9-8-6-9-8-6-| (x3)
D|-------------9---|-------------------------|
A|-----------------|-------------------------|
E|-----------------|-------------------------|
e|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-9---8---6-------|-9-8-6-8b9r8-6-----------|-1-----------------------|
D|-------------9---|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
[Verse 1]
E
There was one thing
B A
I found that I couldn't help thinking
E
As they pried me
B A
Free with the jaws of life
E B A
None of this disaster would ever have happened
E B A
If I had not been driving my neighbor's wife
[Bridge]
G#m
To the Alta Loma Days Inn,
Where I'd registered us as
A
A couple with a name I'm sure
B
Some other couple somewhere has
[Interlude]
E B A x2
[Verse 2]
E
And the last thing
B A
I saw before falling unconscious
E
Was your right hand
B A
Tracing a heart on my thigh
E B A
And I thought my god what an infantile gesture
E B A
And I thought my god what an indescribable high
[Outro]
G#m
The autumn air was sweeter
Than a slice of wedding cake
A
As I overshot the exit and
B A
I tried and failed to find the brake
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| b Bend
| r Release
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