Maria Mckee - Effigy Of Salt Chords

[Verse 1]
        E
What a way, what a way to go
                    Bm
What a fine and inexplicable way of going, this
                    A
What an uncanny visitation
  A
Taking me into the depths
      E                  B
And leaving me stranded
 
[Verse 2]
        E
What a way, what a way to go
                        Bm
What a peculiar and exquisite way of going, this
                                   A
I've been ready I've been willing all along and all the way down I go
 A
And you will never know
       E
Just how far down I let you
          B
And it's all the way I go
 
[Chorus]
         D
Just to look at you
         F#m                          E
One last look is all I take before I have to go
         Bm
Just to look at you
          F#m
Like an effigy of salt
           E
I'm swept away, I sparkle forth
            B
In diamond rays I fall forever
         D
Just to look at you
            C    B     Am    E    B
Then it’s down, down, down I go
 
[Verse 3]
              E
I hate the things I know
   E                                  Bm
I wish I could retrace my steps before I went down to the sea
  Bm                                  A
Where I crept along the depths and prodded underneath
 A
All along and far too deep
            E
At every creature, every foundling
        B
Every horrid gaping mouth
 
[Chorus]
         D
Just to look at you
         F#m                           E
One last look is all I take before I have to go
         Bm
Just to look at you
           F#m
When the lexicon is emptied out
     E
Of every thought and every breath
  B
There is no language left
              D
But just to look at you
           C     B     Am   E
And it's down, down, down I go
 
[Instrumental]
         Bm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
         F
Oh Oh Oh Oh
Dm  B
Oh  Oh
 
[Verse 4]
      E
My beloved, my curse
                                             Bm
How you've ripped me open and you've heaped upon my hurt
                                     A
And the many things that you have required of me
 A
How they frighten and inspire me
     E
The arch of your brow
               B
And the way everything is laid out
 
[Chorus]
          D
Just to look at you
         F#m                          E
One last look is all I take before I have to go
         Bm
Just to look at you
     F#m                                          E
The honey of your skin, the heart shape of your mouth
                       B
Oh, there I go again, I'll leave it out
             D
Just let me look at you
           C     B    Am    E
And it's down, down, down I go (Down, down, down I go)
 
[Outro]
         Bm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
         F
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
Dm  B
Oh  Oh
E
Oh (Down, down, down I go)
Bm
Oh
         F
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
Dm
Oh
E
Oh (Down, down, down I go)
         Bm
Oh Oh Oh Oh
         F
Oh Oh Oh Oh (Down, down, down I go)
Dm
Oh
E
Oh (Down, down, down I go)