Chords for Is an Elegy - Youngblood Brass Band

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[Bbm] I'm sorry, it's easy to [Ab] say when you got arms to find [Gb] solace and lips to get lunch on.
I [F] remain in [Bbm] stain, disdain ingrained.
Are [Ab] you feeling entertained?
I [Gb] used to wonder what the pain was.
My father's heart [F] exploded.
[Bbm] Common art sold it, but this [Ab] won't settle for silence.
Now I'm [Gb] volatile with self-violence.
Trust me, [F] even [Bbm] patients won't try this.
It's better over [Ab] access.
Since I found a [Gb] beat left dying on the street and took her home to [F] pet Stitch, [Bbm] depleting rhythm.
She'd [Ab] been selling hism and we shared [Gb] stories of correlating detonated coronaries.
[F] It's [Bbm] beyond scary.
My fear is the [Ab] little death and I'm no more deep.
[Gb] You colonized my Arrakis.
[F] Helpless, melodic, [Bbm] with the right tactic and the wrong [Ab] practice.
Faulty emotional [Gb] stillness left me dehydrated and rapless.
Let [F] the desert [Bbm] have me.
I didn't know it was the [Ab] last kiss.
You never told me it was [Gb] the last kiss.
You never told me shit.
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[Bbm] I'll [F] play the solo, solar soldier that's internally ignited.
Now where's your coal?
[Bb] To hell in an old soul.
[Ab] It cannot burn like this.
[Gb] Dwell by nostalgia.
All love, [F] all over.
[Bb] We're all just.
I guess I'm [Ab] all folding cause God knows I [D] can't deal holding soul trust.
Thought I was [Bb] Quicksilver, but it's Gold Rush.
Keep my cold [Ab] crush into the promised land.
[Gb] I took a last stand.
Boy, that promise [Cm] bad.
[Bbm] Tried to show [Ab] promised jazz, but he wandered past my [Gb] thumb and I hitched a ride alone to Stripes' home.
[F] I might [Bbm] propone a pen and bad company to [Ab] keep.
Some things seem to [Gb] seep out your pores.
Embedded too deep to be [F] indebted to speak.
[Bbm] In the bed with your freak.
I'll be [Ab] better next week.
I'm dead as text.
[Gb] Believe me, it's not the sex.
No pity, [F] please.
No [Bbm] patronizing subtleties suffering [Ab] me.
No laughing irony.
[Gb] Publicly comedy, tragically [F] badgering my [Bbm] process of not mastering loss.
Get [Ab] this game set, [Gb] match.
At least give me enough cash to get [F] back, right?
[Bbm] Airport sadness, [Ab] D.
And I [Gb] train MCs.
Subway is committing verbal [F] racism.
This [Bbm] shit's got me busted.
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[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] I'm a man.
I'm a man.
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[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] I'm a man.
I'm a man.
I'm [Gb] a man.
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[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ I'm [F] _
[Bbm] _ [Ab] a [Gb] man.
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a man.
Thank you.
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