Chords for Antlers: "Hospice" and "Burst Apart"

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[Cm] I love that [F] one.
I just want to say [C] that.
Thank you very much.
It's kind of you.
I really like it a lot.
So this started with [G] you, if I have it correctly.
[F] Yeah, I mean I started, the [C] first Antlers record I was probably 21.
[G]
I was recording stuff before that under [F] a different name.
But [C] the first Antlers record I was probably about 21.
And [F] then [C] the first record we officially released [Dm] was Hospice.
[Am] And the three of [D] us self-released it [Bm] and toured on it for a long [A] time.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] It's essentially a record about _ psychological abuse and guilt and [A] things like that.
But there's a massive story [E] behind Hospice.
The record is [F#m] based on a relationship.
[E] And it's sort of told through this [A] analogy of a hospice worker and a patient.
Two members of the relationship but characterized [E] as a [A] caregiver and a patient.
Which one were you?
Caregiver.
And [F#m]
[A] it basically tells about the way that relationship falls apart.
So you had an [D] extremely high-maintenance girlfriend.
There it is.
To put it in the most crass terms possible.
Yeah.
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[D] [E] Did the girlfriend ever hear [C] the album?
Yeah.
[G] What was her [C] response?
_ _ [Em] I mean she wasn't happy about it to say the least.
[Am] So you don't think she's walking around with a vinyl copy of the album saying,
I'm the patient at this time.
No, quite [D] the opposite.
The last I talked to her was when the record was [G] still very much happening,
very much [F#] like a big thing.
She was telling me that her [Cm] friends were hearing the record and [Em] listening to it
and telling her about it and she was playing dumb.
Oh really?
[Am] Yeah.
Because I mean she's characterized as like a monster.
I don't think she [F] really wants anyone to think of her that way.
I wouldn't.
I don't know.
[C] _ [Em] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ Did [E] _
[C] _ _ you feel when you guys were going back to make the second record that you
needed to make [F] Hospice Part II?
[E] No, I think we were feeling like we needed to [C] not do that.
After two years of touring on Hospice I think we wanted [F] to go to,
I don't know, go into something a little bit lighter,
feeling [Em] a little more optimistic [C] and exploratory.
[F] So we just set out to [E] see what happens, see what we came up [D] with.
_ [A] _ [A#] _ [Bm] But [E] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ [G]
it [F#m] _ _ [Em] [Bm] still is, [E] _ [Bm] you know, for lack of a [E] better term, a little bit mope [Bm] rock.
Did you [E] [Bm] worry about [G] being classified as a sad band?
[F#m] [E] I think [Bm] the idea with this record was to hold on to who we are as a band.
[E] You're a sad guy.
[G] No, I'm not a sad [Bm] guy.
But I think it was [G#m] about Hospice [G] being, it is a [Bm] really sad record.
And I think to put out something [B] on the one hand that was completely
[Bm] miserable again would not have been an accurate portrayal of where I'm at.
And to put out something completely 100% happy would also not.
Concentrating on lyrical [G] content, certainly with [Bm] something like Hospice
where it's basically a novel set to music, if you will.
But [G] I think there's, you know, [Bm] people [B] clearly latch on to the lyrical content
and [Bm] decide if it's a sad song or not.
[E] But I think as [Bm] far as musical content, there is a, you kind of [E] just let
yourself [Bm] go with it.
I don't think people are ending up in a [E] dark, morose place.
[G] We're still, we want to explore [C#] the [Em] emotional content.
We're not just [E] stuck in the sad [Bm] town.
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