Destroyer – Looters Follies chords

[Verse 1]
         C                EYou can huff and you can puff
            AmBut you'll never destroy that stuff
               Dm        GFinally, I see why, I suppose
          DmKid, you better change your feathers
                              F        C      FCause you'll never fly with those... things
                  C      FIn 'These Nights,'  the boys sing
            C"Hello, emptiness
    FI heard you're alright
       CI've heard you're alright
       FI've heard of you"

[Verse 2]
   C              EA body aching, fragile, and pale
       AmDark valleys house its trail
                          F                 GWhy can't you see that a life in art and a life of mimicry
                Dm     GIt's the same thing?!

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[Verse 3]
     C         AmThe room was crowded
             C                       Am                     FAnd, though you couldn't care less about it, that much was true
       GThat month
           F                          GAnother version of this miniature Rome to set fire to
FWhy did we stop fucking around you?
GGirls like gazelles graze
F                         G             Dm    GBoys wearing bells blaze new trails in sound

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[Verse 4]
         C              GI looked up, I looked around
    F                                  EmA famous Toronto painter shot me down
            Am                                 D"Oh, I've busted my ass on these streets too long," he said
       F                   G         FI set fire to the bed and tore his gown

[Outro]
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F                              EmFelt some mercurial presence, hitherto unknown
           Dm                     CIt was the sun, it was a stone falling through blank space
              F                     Em              Dm CIt was that jewel-encrusted roan getting in my face

F                                 Em  Looked across the way to The Princess Rooms
        DmI saw brides and their grooms
              CI heard the sound of bells ringing!
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                                 EmCinders look back fondly upon a house on fire when across
    DmAn ocean we go
    C                     FWe row and we row and we tire
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                                  EmNow, step out of the darkness and into the light
             Dm                         CYeah, it's common knowledge I've been doing alright
       FNo, I can't complain
       Em                    DmOn the East side, midwives' lives go down the drain
C                          F          EmAll cause our babies are dying, oh-oh-oh!
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

F                       Em                DmI lifted the veil to see nature's trickery revealed as pure shit
       C                          F                   EmFrom which nothing ever rose cause nothing ever could
   Dm                               C             F EmI swear somewhere the truth lies within this wood
   Dm                                              C  F EmI swear, "Looters' Follies" has never sounded so good
     Dm             C             F      Em Dm CAnd, win or lose, what's the difference?
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada
F     Em        Dm         C          FLadadada, Ladadada, Ladadadadadadadadada

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