Los Campesinos - The Black Bird The Dark Slope Chords

[Verse 1]
          G#                         D#
The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight
             G#                                  D#
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
       G#                             D#
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
          G#                     D#
But the brushstrokes feel like hearth pokes into my skin
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The black bird feasts upon my guts and bears its beak to fight
             G#                                  D#
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
       G#                             D#
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
          G#                                D#
Now they poke between my teeth and that's why I thirst
 
[Pre-Chorus]
     A#      D#      A#      D#
And when he flies me to the top
         A#      D#      A#  D#
There's nothing but the fog
     A#     D#       A#      D#
A heart of stone, eggshell for bones
      A#     D#
They lead you to be lost
 
[Chorus]
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)
    D#
A part of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down)
    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)
A# D#    A# D#   A# D#
So sad to see, so sad
 
[Verse 2]
   G#                               D#
I ask before I go for you to drop a lit match down my throat
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And smoke the bastard out, it'll burn him to a crisp
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'Cause I'm already carrion, been eaten from the inside too long
      G#                                  D#
This black bird wants to rip me limb from limb
    G#
The black bird dips its beak in blood
    D#
And writes its thoughts in cursive
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'Cross the bones that are its jailer and my ribcage
    G#
And when you turn me inside out
   D#
Believe in me, without a doubt
     G#                               D#
The words were all of his and none of mine
 
[Pre-Chorus]
     A#      D#      A#      D#
And when he flies me to the top
         A#      D#      A#  D#
There's nothing but the fog
     A#     D#       A#      D#
A heart of stone, eggshell for bones
      A#     D#
They lead you to be lost
 
[Chorus]
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
D#
The dark slope drags you down
    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)
    D#
A part of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down)
    D#
The black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down)
A# D#    A# D#   A# D#
So sad to see, so sad