Mewithoutyou – August 6th chords

[Verse]
Bm                                DAug. 6th, carved in desks with old knives:
                               A“Back when our common cause was alive
                                          BmAnd--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were in bloom
                                        DChildren watched as the soldiers marched by
                                      AAll the birds fell like frogs from the sky
                                       BmProstrate in the streets every crescent moon
                                   DLonesome offspring of which still resound
                                               AWith the victimless sins of their authors passed down
                                             BmAnd the remnants of loathsome, disjointed worlds
                                         DAlong the short path round the lily pad pond
                                     AWith off-white deerskin wedding dress on
                                             BmGerman songs, homemade bonnets like old-order, amish girls jilted by squirrels
                       DIn the parks of Sioux Falls haunted by church bells
               ALike ghosts of applause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls like
    Bm                                         D                                         ANew Mexico, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion dolls making up myths about wounds without cause...”
                                                BmAnd sometimes when it’s quiet my heart feels like Guernica
                                              D[scenes from old air raid] on screens in blue dusk
                                                       APerfumed neighborhoods/graveyards the breath feels like flies in my lungs, voice like ambulance
            BmSirens whose light floods the ground
                                       D(“praying mantis spreads arms” said the lines of whose palm?)
                                   ASkyline shifting like clouds became “airplane descends”
                                    Bm[fade to scenes on the ground] human foreheads all smashed
                                DForeign cars upside down, insect mouths open wide
                                   AI stared down a huge insect, bright red-glowing eyes
                                        Bm[does it feel wrong to say a thought “metastasized”?], legs on both highway sides

[Break]
F#m  A  G

(Said insect was mechanized!)

F#m  A  G  Em
F#m  A  G

(Said insect was mechanized!)