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#----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-----------------------------# # This represents the author's own work and interpretation of the # # song. To be used only for private study, scholarship, or research. # #--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Artist: Destroyer
Album: Streethawk: A Seduction
Song: Bad Arts
Tabbed by: Graham Bell
Capo on 4
All chords relative to capo
G: 355433
C/G: 335553
Dsus: 000230
C/G
Absolve, absolve, absolve...
G Em G C/G Dsus
We spent the better part of a day waiting for the wave to hit our side of
Am
town
(It didn't).
C/G
Absolve, absolve, absolve...
G Em
I wash my hands of the stuff of legends.
G Em
And what news of the horizon?
G C/G
I hear it's all just a horizontal myth,
Am A
so stop your cruising, start your criticizing!
C/G
Indulge yourself for once. Feel medium between them.
G Em
Goddamn your eyes.
G Em C A C/G
They just had to be twin prizes waiting for the sun.
G Em
And goddamn your eyes.
G Em C A C/G
They just had to be twin prizes waiting for the sun.
G Em C A C/G
They just had to be twin prizes waiting for the sun.
G Em C A C/G
G C/G
See them sporting those eagle iron-ons you made me swear never to wear?
G
Why did you spend the 90's cowering?
C/G
Why did you spend the 90's cowering?
G C/G
And they're singing those inspirationals you penned back in '72.
Em
And the hotels of choice are now toasting your voice,
C/G
as the spas ring out,
G C/G Em C/G
"what's another word for 'sacrament?'"
G
The world woke up one day to proclaim:
C/G
"Thou shalt not take part in, or make, bad art."
G
In these tough, tough times friends like mine would rather dash than dine
C/G
on the bones of what's thrown to them...
D
When a wave of her wand has us back at the pond
Am C/G
taking notes for our crooked underground!
G
The world woke up one day to proclaim,
C/G
"Thou shalt not make or take part in the bad arts."
G
You see, the Singer sold us out.
C/G
The Guitarist lost his clout on Life-Of-The-Mind Day.
G C/G
When signs become impure again, the crowd doesn't know where or when
to let it all hang out.
C/G
Bloodlet yourself, street style!!
G C
You got the spirit. Don't lose the feeling.