Mountain Goats - Before I Got There Chords

Ab Db (x4)
Ab Bbm Gb Db (x2)
 
 
[Verse 1]
Ab                             Bbm  Gb                 Db
The acrid smell of burning branches, the relics all in ruin
Ab                        Bbm Gb                Db
Broken blades atop the altar, cheap substitutions
C7                   Fm
And the tapestry above
Db                        Ab
Torn down, trampled, then re-hung
C7                 Fm  Eb                Db
Now illegible forever, an oracle with no tongue
 
 
[Chorus]
Cm     Db    Cm         Ab
All of this, all of this
Cm      Db               C
All of this before I got there
 
Ab Bbm Gb Db (x2)
 
[Verse 2]
Ab                        Bbm Gb                     Db
And in a pit behind the altar, the bodies of the fallen
Ab                     Bbm Gb                           Db
Heavy tracks up to the lip just to prove that they were crawling
C7                      Fm
Faces turned toward the sky
Db                             Ab
that they would never see again
C7                 Fm  Eb                Db
Victims of the fallout, I have failed you sweet young men
 
 
[Chorus]
Cm     Db    Cm         Ab
All of this, all of this
Cm      Db               C
All of this before I got there
 
Ab Bbm Gb Db (x8)
End on Ab