Chords for MS. MURAL

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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Am] If you had to paint [E] the gutter, [Ab] which color would you [G] choose?
Said the patron to the painter, [Gbm] the painter said [Am] the blues.
Do you act off [E] intuition [Ab] or languish and [G] peruse?
More like tapping to tradition [Gbm] from the [Am] angle of my mood.
He looked back at [E] his canvas, [Ab] a strangle in a [G] tube.
A master of the [Gbm] palette, sang [Am] when in cool.
The music [E] mostly jazz, [Ab] jazz mostly [G] old.
Punctured by some punk [Gbm] and some [D] old [Am] smoky soul.
An atlas on a [Ab] trunk from the land [E] of broken [G] goals.
Just a cover in the back [Gbm] that you [Am] open and you close.
Where are all the [Ab] pages?
The painter [E] said [G] defanged.
I ripped them all out [Gbm] and made [Am] some paper planes.
Fish grease [Ab] absorbers and some [E] origami [G] cranes.
Poured itself a [Gbm] drink and then poured [Am] it down the drain.
Looked at the empty [Ab] canvas, said I think [E] I have a [G] name.
I'll call it gasoline.
[Gbm] _ [Am] Pouring on the flames.
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appreciate [Ab] the visit.
This isn't normally [G] allowed.
Do you consider yourself [Gbm] wild or [Am] performing to a style
the patron pointed at [E] a pile of those rejections or [G] mistakes?
The painter says that [Gbm] is not a [A] question or debate.
Most of what we know as art [Ab] is the projection [E] of a [G] faith.
Product of a [Gb] pontiff or the election [D] of a [A] saint.
Gift from the red [Ab] for the digestion [E] of the [C] caint.
Visual garnish [Gb] for the [Am] confessions of the frank.
Displays of [E] physical carnage make [Ab] connections to the [G] ranks.
Goes over very well [D] with South Americans and yanks.
[Am] Not to sound [E] shamanistic, but [Ab] there's medicine in [G] paint.
It gets kinetic if you let [D] it.
There's a fetish in its [Am] strength.
Modern them [E] will call Russian roulettes in the [G] blanks.
And most will pull the [Gbm] trigger if the [Am] weapon's full of blanks.
But when there's a pool [E] of sharks and you step into the [G] tank,
that's the pool of art [Gbm] that got him [Am] headed to the plank.
But they fell for the [Ab] deceptiveness of the [E] secularist [G] complaint.
The upheaval of the [Gbm] cathedrals into the [Am] edifice of bank.
That pile [E] over there is just the evidence of [G] angst.
The felt revival of a [Gbm] perfectionist whose [Am] efforts have just sank.
A selection of the waste [Gb] that lacks direction or a base.
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You lose all of the [B] plots for the affections of a race.
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Man does not become [E] superior because you connect them to a cape.
[G] Nor does become inferior [Gbm] because you connect [D] them to [Am] an ape.
I never wanted [E] my life to be a collection of some [G] dates.
And holiday my days away and [Am] intellectually sedate.
It's not really [E] beat, but sexually at [G] stake.
Like genitals and [Gbm] gender roles [D] successfully [Am] conflate.
The current art world [Ab] is just competitively [G] opaque.
It never ceases to [Gbm] amaze.
My mouth is [Am] medically agape.
One day it's raising up the brand.
[Ab] The next is [E] shredding it to [G] flakes.
And the velocity of [D] trends is what [Am] referees the pace.
Professionally [E] accept, [Ab] well, ethically I [G] hate.
So in all of my work, [Gbm] you see this [Am] wrestling with fate.
It's even in [E] the brush strokes [Ab] how aggressively I straight.
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Let's make putting on some [Gbm] makeup more like [D] severing [Am] a face.
Wow.
[E] Said the patron with a [G] smile.
That's the most interesting [D] diatribe I've heard in [Am] a while.
How you articulated the [Ab] nature.
You put [E] it all on [G] trial.
Took it up to [Gbm] heaven.
Then put [D] it on the [Am] ground.
The painter acts the [Ab] patron.
Do you [E] stand up on the power?
[G] I've had a flash of [Gbm] inspiration.
My [Am] creativeness aroused.
The model took its [Ab] place.
[E] Painter grabbed the [G] lighter.
Doused the shit in [Gbm] gasoline and [Am] set it all on fire.
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ fire. [Am] You know, I'm
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I'm [Ab] proud of you.
[G] I'm proud of I'm [D] so proud of you. proud of you.
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