Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital Chords

[Intro]
 
F C/E G/D C
F C/E G/D C
 
 
[Verse]
 
F               C/E  G/D      C
The half-backflip conception, state hospital birth
F                  C/E    G/D       C
The most threadbare, tall story the country has ever heard
F           C/E         G/D          C
Brought home to breathe smoke in the arms of her mother
                       F                   C/E         G/D
The blunt kitchen knife who just lays in a submissive position
          C                                     F
Beneath a national weight and the slow arc of a fist
 
 
[Chorus]
 
          C/E          C           F                     C/E C F
Her heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairs
             C/E          C        F
Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave
      C/E    C      F
She was born into a grave
 
 
[Interlude]
 
F C/E G/D C
F C/E G/D C
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
F                       C/E            G/D
And in the limp through years of bored schooling
      C
She’s accustomed to hearing that she could never run far
F                     C/E        G/D
A slipped disc in the spine of community
  C
A bloody curse word in a pedestrian verse
F                         C/E            G/D
Spirits in graveyards and fingers in car parks
    C
She cries on the high street just to be heard
F                      C/E             G/D
A screaming anchor for nothing in particular
       C                                                F
At the foot of the f**k of it dragging her heels in the dirt
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
          C/E          C           F                     C/E C F
Her heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairs
             C/E          C        F
Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave
      C/E    C           F C F
She was born into a grave
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
F
The cheek of youth flashed red and turned green
        F
Now she lies on the pavement, she is helped to her feet
F                   C/E    G/D
All thighs hair and magpie handbags
C
Saturday’s uniform for the ‘f**k me’ parade
F          C/E      G/D          C
Brought home to keep warm in the arms of a plumber
                 F                 C/E          G/D
Ruddy and balding who just needs a spine to dig into
  C                                            F
A chest for the head and a hand for the holding
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
          C/E          C           F                     C/E C F
Her heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairs
             C/E          C        F
Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave
                C
She was she was
 
 
[Interlude]
 
F C F C F C F
 
 
[Chorus 4]
 
          C/E          C           F                     C/E C F
Her heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairs
             C/E          C        F
Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was she was
          C/E     C      F                  C/E C F
A broken elevator anthem held between floors
                C/E          C
But if blood is thicker than concrete
F
All is not lost
 
 
[Outro]
 
           C    F
All is not lost
           C    F
All is not lost
           C    F C F
All is not lost
           C
All is not lost