The Gun Song

[Intro]

(All barred)

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )

I'm not hung up on you anymore, but here's why I hung up

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A )
( Cm )

[Primeira Parte]

G      Em               D           G
Behind every great love story lies a great suicide
          Em               D       C                  G
You can't give yourself completely and keep the man inside

C       D           Am
All the sentences I climbed halfway
        C          D      Am
Saw the heights of what I wanted to say
    C            D       Am
And crawled from word to word
D
Trying to get back down

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )
( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A  Cm )

[Segunda Parte]

G     Em          D                G
The unending realization that it's never gonna end
        Em              D             C                     G
I spend half the day exhaling and the other half holding my breath

      C           D         Am
Cause living underwater was never my strength
       C            D         Am
In the depths you reside, the sun never sinks
         C            D          Am
So let’s float to the bottom for one final drink
        D
There’s time for one more tonight

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )
( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A )
( Cm  G )

[Terceira Parte]

     Em         D                          G
It’s time to forget while the forgetting’s good
     Em                    D                    C      G
I’ll burn all the promises I carved out of your woulds

    C              D    Am
You said won't you come into arm's reach
  C          D           Am
Abandon your clothes and modes of speech
   C      D      Am
An infant reborn you shall be
C              G
Helpless and afraid

( G9  G  G7M  G  G7M  G )

[Quarta Parte]

    Em                   D                  G
I’m waving goodbye every time you go to the store
  Em                           D                      C    G
I hope you break your hand the next time you slam the door

        C           D       Am
Because I burned my fingers every night
          C           D              Am
When your own shaking hands wouldn’t give you a light
      C           D          Am
And I said “Jesus Christ, my parents were right
  C                          G
I never should’ve smoked you out”

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )
( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A )
( Cm  G )

[Quinta Parte]

    Em          D                    G
I’d hate to amputate this artificial limb
    Em                 D              C       G
But staring at you, my glass eyes are growing dim

  C          D             Am
I can’t even blame you for looking so smug
  C       D              Am
I have to admit you’re a hell of a drug
   C           D              Am
So pack up the boxes, roll me up with the rug
        C                         G
I’m not moving out, I’m just moving

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )
( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A )
( Cm  G )

[Sexta Parte]

           Em                  D             G
(Kissed) I kissed you, yes, but never on the mouth
                Em            D                      C
(Masochist) You held the north while I conquered the south

    C       D           Am
But I don't want a territorial breach
   C      D           Am
So at the edge of the bed we'll meet
      C           D       Am
And I want you to fuck me in your sleep
         C             G (played on bass)
It's the only way I'll know
G
That you love me
G
Cause there's always gotta be a new angle

Em                   D                 G
Guns are loaded with silver bullets tonight
         Em                   D                    C    G
But it’s useless, you kept me waiting until it was light

C                D       Am
But you can’t go out the way you came in
       C       D          Am
In the arms of someone unaware of your sins
        C           D            Am
Because I’ve been recording this whole fucking thing
            D                                  G
Now you can never use the same chord changes again

( G  C )

G Em
The first time was too fast
G A
The second time was just sad

( C  C  G )

[Verso 7]

          Em                      D                   G
If you’re wondering why I’m still willing to take the fall
       Em                           D                     C C/B G
If I’m not getting fucked over, I’m not getting fucked at all

    C       D         Am
But I never asked for immunity
           C          D       Am
That’s the difference between you and me
      C          D               Am
All I wanted was someone who was just like me
      C
And I hate myself for that

( G  Am )
( G  Am )
( C  C )

[Verso 8]

     Em              D              G
It’s getting hard to talk about the past
            Em              D                     C    G
When you’ve copyrighted the present, no questions asked

        C      D        Am
You can do whatever you want with my name
       C        D          Am
But my body has never been public domain
      C              D       Am
So if you’re looking for somebody to blame
      C
Blame Walt Disney Studios

( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  Am )
( C  G )
( G  Em  G )
( G  G#  A )
( Cm )

[Verso 9]

  Em                                D                           G
I remember, I was walking around outside, talking to you on the phone
        Em                D                    C    G
We were both avoiding the parties we attended alone

    C        D         Am
And I looked up at the drunken moon
       C                D           Am
It was round and it was grey and it looked like the moon
      C        D           Am
And I said “at least we’ve both got the moon”
        C           G
And you said “I’m inside”

[Refrão]

   C        Bm     Am
So I’ll try loving again
    C          Bm     Am
And you’ll try living alone
    C                 Bm          Am
And we’ll meet at the end of this lifetime
       D    G
And compare notes

[Interlude] G  Em  G
            G  G#  Am
            C  G
            G  Em  G
            G  G#  A
            Cm
            G  Em  G
            G  G#  Am
            C  G
            G  Em  G
            G  G#  A  Cm
            G  Em  G
            G  G#  Am
            C  G
            G  Em  G
            G  G#  A
            C  G

[Segunda Parte]

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  G
I hate your receptionist
             D
She looks at me like I’m retarded
         Am
When I’m filling out your forms

           G
I see your form behind the frosted glass
        D
But she says that you’re not there
             Am
I’ll have to be content to wait

       G
If you felt some kind of stirring
 D
Against interpretation
Am
Why write these songs at all?

    G
Why not become didactic
     D
Tell everyone on the planet
         Am
In plain English what you are

    C               D
But I am the gentle cannibal
  Em                 D
I promise to eat you softly
Am        D        Em     D
You won’t notice a thing

( C  G  D )

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G  D
     Hold me tight
Am                                   G
   You're taking advice from Lady Macbeth

     D                        Am
William, one shot, two shots
                                           G
When it’s out of your hands, you try to forget

    D
Mariamme, hold me tight
        Am
I still wish you hadn't listened to me

I ain’t been right since the

Execution

G     D
 William, one shot two shots
   Am
Whoever you are, just hold me tight, I lost my love, my life, that -

G              D                                  Am
All I know is, one of us was supposed to kill the other
G                    D                   Am
Isn’t that what they mean when they say ‘lovers’?
G              D                      Am
  But murder is dirty, and peace comes cheap
G                  D                           Am
  So here’s my new number, tell me when you’re free

( C  D  Em  D )
( C  D  Em  D )
( C  G  D )
( C  Am  G )

[Refrão]

( G  D  A )
( G  D  A )

G    D      A
Down by the river
G D       A
I shot my baby