Lush
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1. Liquid Smooth
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[Intro]
F/A Cm/G F/A Cm/G
F/D Cm/A F/G Cm/A
F/G Cm/A F/G Cm/A
[Verse 1]
F/G Cm/A F/G Cm/A
I'm beautiful, I know cause it's the season
F/G Baug F/A G/B
But what am I to do with all this beauty?
Ebmaj7 Abmaj9 Fdim/A D7/F# F
Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical
Fm G
That's all, that is all
[Chorus]
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F7/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim7
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
G/B
I'm in my prime
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F7/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim7
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
G/B Cm
About to fall, capture me
[Verse 2]
F/C Cm/A F/G Cm/A
Or at least take my picture
F/A Baug F/A G/B
Kuzurete yuku maeni
Ebmaj7 Abmaj9 Fdim/A D7/F# F
I'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living
Fm G
Beginning to end
[Chorus]
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F7/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim7
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
G/B
I'm in my prime
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F7/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim7
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
G/B
About to fall
[Bridge]
Cm G/D F F
How I feel this river rushing through my veins
Cm Cm/B F F#dim G
With nowhere else to go, it circles 'round
[Chorus]
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F7/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
G/B
I'm in my prime
Cm Cm/B Cm/Bb F/A
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
Absus Am7b5 Adim7
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
G/B Cm
About to fall, capture me
[Outro]
G/B F5 G5 D5
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2. Wife
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[Intro]
F/C Dm7/C D7/A G7
[Verse 1]
C F C Dm7 Am D7 C/G G7
You're home, you're home, you're home to me
C F C Dm Am D7 C/G G7
So leave me, leave me, leave me a map
Am G D7/F D7/F# G
I'm here at my cliff looking down
[Chorus]
C E/B Am
I cannot bear you a son
C/G
But I will try
F6 Ddim G7 G/B
For if I am not yours, what am I?
C E/B Am C/G
I daydream I'd give one a name of my own
F6 Dm G7 G/B
For I, even I, even I am alone
[Bridge]
C Am7 C Dm
Am7 D7/A C/G G7
[Verse 2]
C C6 C Dm Am7 D7/A C/G G7 C C6
I have, I have, I watch a dream breaking
C Dm D7/A G7
Breaking, breaking, breaking me
Am G D7 G
Away from my cliff, I'm looking down from
[Chorus]
C E/B Am
I cannot bear you a son
C/G
I have tried
F6 Ddim G7 G/B
But if I am not yours, what am I?
C E/B Am C/G
I daydream I'd give him a name of my own
F6 Dm G7 G/B Am
For I, even mine, even mine is unknown
[Post-Chorus]
G F Dm7 Am
So let me go towards the morning star
G F D
With hope it won't disappear
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3. Abbey
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[Verse 1]
B B+
I am hungry
B Emmaj7
I have been hungry
Badd2 B
I was born hungry
Aadd2 Emaj9/G#
What do I need?
[Verse 2]
B Emmaj7
I am something
B Emmaj7
I have been something
A G
I was born something
Aadd2 Emaj9/G#
What could I be?
[Chorus 1]
B D# E B
There is a light that I can see
E B Emmaj7 F#add4
But only, it seems, when there's darkness in me
B Badd4 Emmaj7/G D#m/F#
There is a dream that I sometimes see
G#m B
That only appears in the dark of sleep
D#m/A# C# Em
Ooh, ooh, ooh
[Verse 3]
Bsus4
I am waiting
B Bsus4
I have been waiting
F#add4
I was born waiting
E F# F#add2
I was born waiting
[Bridge]
B
For that something
E E/B B
Just one something
G#m B/F#
I was born something
G#m F#
I was born
[Chorus 2]
B D# E B
There is a light, I feel it in me
E B G#m F#add4
But only, it seems, when the dark surrounds me
B D# E D#7
There is a dream and it sleeps in me
B Bsus4 Bsus2 Bm
To awake in the night, crying "Set me free"
B Em E B
And I wake every night, crying "Set me free"
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4. Brand New City
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[Intro]
N.C.
Oh one, two, honey what you take?
C Fm G C
Fm Db Cm
[Verse 1]
Fm Abdim7 Cm C
I think my brain is rotting in places
Fm Db6 Cm
I think my heart is ready to die
C Fm Abdim7 Cm C
I think my body is pulling in pieces
Fm Db Cm
I think my blood is passing me by
[Hook]
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab G
Tell me what you took, what you take
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab G Cm
Tell me what you took, what you take
[Instrumental]
Fm Abdim7 Cm Cm
Fm Db C
[Verse 2]
Fm Abdim7 Cm Cm
I think my fate is losing its patience
Fm Db Cm
I think the ground is pulling me down
Fdim7 Gdim7 Gbdim7 C
I think my life is losing momentum
Fm Db Cm
I think my ways are wearing me down
[Bridge]
N.C.
But if I gave up on being pretty
N.C.
I wouldn't know how to be alive
Cm7 Fm7
I should move to a brand new city
Fm7 G
Teach myself how to die
[Hook]
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab G
Tell me what you took, what you take
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab G Cm
Tell me what you took, what you take
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab7 G
Tell me what you took, what you take
Cm Fm
Honey what you take, what you take? Honey look at me
Ab G Cm
Tell me what you took, what you take
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5. Eric
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[Intro]
G#m D# G G#m G D# G G# G G#
[Verse 1]
G G# G G#
You like control, well, I do too
G G# G G#
Take off my clothes and watch me move
G G# G F# D#m
You can come closer, I'll let you hurt me
G#m G
How you choose
G#m G D#m
[Verse 2]
Gm G# Gm G#m
Help me with the zipper on my skirt, it's stuck
G G# G G#
As you kneel, I'll be watching you fix me
G G# D# G F# D#m G#m Gm G#m G
This view of you, of the top of your head makes me forgive you
[Chorus 1]
G#m A# B D#
But how long, how long can we play this way?
G#m A# B A#7 D#7
I'm tired, I'm tired of not loving you
G#m A#7 B D#7
My heart, my heart wants to hold you
G#m A# B F#
But I know, I know, I know the rules
G#m G G#m G G#m F# D# D
[Verse 3]
D# G G#m G G#
Blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth
G#m Gm G# G G#m
As you smile at my trembling shoulders
G G#m G
But your skin, did you notice your skin?
F# D# G#m D#m G G# D# Gm G#m
It cries a soft weep like mine
[Chorus 2]
A# B D# G#m
I'll sell, I'll sell my whole to you
A#m A# B D# D#7
What's my, what's my, what's my price?
G#m A#7 B D# D#7 G#m
How 'bout, how 'bout just a part of you?
A# B D# G#m A#m B C#
'Cause I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want
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6. Bag of Bones
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[Intro]
C Caug C# C#aug
F Fmaj7
C Caug C# C#aug
F Am
[Verse 1]
C Caug C#
I'm all used up, pretty boy
C#aug F Fmaj7
Over and over again, my nail colors are wearing off
C Caug C#
See my hands, pretty boy
C#aug
What do they tell you?
F Am
Cause I've looked down at them, not knowing why
C Caug C# C#aug F
And after everything's done and I'm all undone
Fmaj7 C Caug
You can hear my high heels walking on
C# C#aug F
Clickety-clacking through the night
Am
I'm carrying my bag of bones
[Pre-Hook]
C Caug C# C#aug
F G
[Hook]
C Em7/B Am Fmaj7 G7/B
Fluorescent store lights, you shine through the night
Am E7/G# Am Fmaj7 G7/B
Illuminate my pores and you tear me apart
Fmaj7/A E7/G# Am Fmaj7
Mercy on me, would you please spare me tonight?
Am E7/B Am C/G Fmaj7
I'm tired of this searching, would you let me let go?
[Interlude]
C Caug C# C#aug
F Fmaj7
[Verse 2]
C Caug C#
I know my room is a mess
C#aug F Fmaj7
Over and over again I tell myself I'll clean tomorrow
C Caug C#
Just move the stuff up off the bed
C#aug F
And do what you came here to do
Am
But first, open up a window for me
C Caug C# C#aug F
And let the cool air in, feel the night slip in
Fmaj7 C Caug
As it softly glides along your back
C# C#aug F
And I hope you leave right before the sun comes up
Am G
So I can watch it alone
[Hook]
C Em7/B Am Fmaj7 G7/B
Fluorescent store lights, you shine through the night
Am E7/G# Am Fmaj7 G7/B
Illuminate my pores and you tear me apart
Fmaj7/A E7/G# Am Fmaj7
Mercy on me, would you please spare me tonight?
Am E7/B Am C/G Fmaj7
I'm tired of this searching, would you let me let go?
[Post-Hook]
Am E7/G#
And I can take a little bit more
Am Fmaj7
Let's shake this poet out of the beast
Am E7/G#
Just a, just a little bit more
Am Fmaj7
Let's shake this poet out of the beast
[Outro]
Am G F
E7 Bb C
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7. Door
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[Verse 1]
F# D#m
There is a door to me
F# C#
I've never seen it
F# D#m F#
Sometimes I get closer to it
C#
But I've never found it
F# D#m F#
At twilight I almost had it
C D
But then the night fell
F# D# F#
I looked out at the dark and wondered
C# F#maj7 D# F F#maj7 C#
How could I have lost ii t?
[Verse 2]
F# D#m
Then one night at the park
F#maj7 C#
I saw it with my cheek in the dirt
F#maj7 D#
I couldn't move underneath the dark
F#maj7 F# C# A#m
But at least I finally found iii- i - i- it
G# D#m
It cried out a creak and opened
C# F#
To show me what's beyond it
D#m C#
A hopeless, a violence
G# C#
I named it: Love.
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8. Pearl Diver
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[Intro]
Fm/G G
Fm/C Dm7b5 G G7/F
Hmm...
Fm Fm6 G G7/F
Hmm...
[Verse 1]
Ab
Treasure hunter, you are dead
Cm
The light of the world is fading
Ab
You cannot see the other end
Cm
Your body's lost all feeling
F G
Those creatures of your woken mind
Cm Ab F7
Don't fear them or their hunger
Fm
Forgive the sea, follow the tide
G
With the monsters on your shoulder
[Chorus]
Fm
Pearl diver, dive, dive deeper
G
Pearl diver, dive, dive down
Fm
Pearl diver, dive, dive deeper
G F
Pearl diver, dive, dive down
[Verse 2]
Fm C Cm
Oh, hunter, if you didn't want the beautiful so badly
Fm Bb Cm Bb
Perhaps you would've found it in your spirit singing softly
F G
But hunter, you were human
Cm F
Don't forget it and go safely
Fm
And I, I'll live without you
G
Though the struggle will be daily
[Chorus]
Fm F
Pearl diver, dive, dive deeper
G Gm
Pearl diver, dive, dive down
Fm
Pearl diver, dive, dive deeper
G F
Pearl diver, dive, dive down
[Bridge]
Fm G
Oh, oh
Fm G
Oh, ooh
[Outro]
F Ab Db
Treasure hunter, you are dead
C
The light of the world is fading
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9. Real Men
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[Verse 1]
Am G E7 Am
Real men don't need other people, and
Am G E7 Am
Real men suck it in
Am F Dm E7
Real men don't flinch or bleed in public
E7 Am
Oh, I think I'm a real man
[Verse 2]
Am G E7 Am
Little boys cry and look around for comfort
Am G E7 Am
And always get what they want
Am F Dm E7
Little boys see toys and say "I can take that!"
E7 Am
Oh, you are my little boy
[Chorus 1]
Dm
Though honestly, sir
F E7
All I wanna do is get naked in front of you
Dm
So you can look me up and down and tell me
F E7
"Well done, girl, you're looking good"
[Interlude]
Am G Am E7
[Verse 3]
Am G E7 Am
Real men keep cool in the face of a fire
Am Dm E7 Am
Go down with the ship
Am F
And real men don't eat
Dm E7
'Cause they're above that, damn it
E7 Am
Oh, I'm gonna be a real man
[Chorus 2]
Dm
Though honestly, sir
F E7
All I wanna do is get naked in front of you
Dm
So you can look me up and down
F E7
And give me your love for being so good
[Verse 4]
Am G
But little boys hold me, color me
Am
Praise me, make me feel lovely
G
For a little while
Am F
So little boy, say you want me
Dm
'Cause, well, I can't take it
E7
Go ahead
E7 N.C
Do it, do it
How to play Lush
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