Against Me!

CAPO: 3

Chords:

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INTRO:

VERSE:

Cmaj7 Em G Em x4

Two coffins for sleep.
One for you, one for me.
We’ll get there eventually.
In the dark of our graves our bodies will decay.
I wish you’d never change.

CHORUS:

Cmaj7 G Em x2
Cmaj7 G Em G x2

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there’ll be nothing left of you and me.

INTERLUDE:

Cmaj7 Em G Em x2

Two coffins for sleep.
Two coffins for sleep.

VERSE:

Cmaj7 Em G Em x4

All the things I have yet to lose will someday be gone too.
Back into annihilation.
All things will fade, maybe it’s better off that way.
I wish you’d stay with me.

CHORUS:

Cmaj7 G Em x2
Cmaj7 G Em G x2

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there’ll be nothing left of you and me.

INTERLUDE:

Cmaj7 Em G Em x2

Two coffins for sleep.
Two coffins for sleep.

CHORUS:

Cmaj7 G Em x2
Cmaj7 G Em G x2

How lucky I ever was to see
the way that you smiled at me.
Your little moon face shining bright at me.
One day soon there’ll be nothing left of you and me.

OUTRO:

Cmaj7 Em G Em x4

Two coffins for sleep.
Two coffins for sleep.
Two coffins for sleep.
Two coffins for sleep.

Paralytic States (acoustic) by Against Me!

A couple of notes:

– This is how Laura plays the song at acoustic shows. The LP version is slightly
different (there’s leads, a key change, etc).

– Also, G#m denotes something like this:

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[-6-5-6-5-]
[-6-6-6-6-]
[-4-3-4-3-]
That said, here’s the song:

She could hear them fking through
Those thin hotel walls
She heard babies crying,
She heard laughter, she heard sirens
Red and blue lights flashing
Through those cheap hotel drapes
Blood spilled out on the porcelain
The bath tub’s over-flowing

Paralytic states of dependency
All waking life’s just a living dream
Agitated states of amazement
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

Spread out faced down on those
Stained cheap hotel sheets
She spent the last years of her life
Running from the boy she used to be
Cut her face wide open
Shaved the bone down thin
Plumped her lips up exaggerated
A fked up kind of feminine

Paralytic states of dependency
All waking life’s just a living dream
Agitated states of amazement
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

Night time at the hotel there was fighting in the hall
Thin chain lock to keep the world out
She held her breath till it was gone
Standing naked in front of that hotel bathroom mirror
In her dysphoria’s reflection
She still saw her mother’s son

Paralytic states of dependency
All waking life’s just a living dream
Agitated states of amazement
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
B G#m
Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

By the time the ball dropped it was already over
By the time the ball dropped it was already over
No resolutions for the new year beginning tomorrow

[Main Riff]

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[Verse 1]
All dressed up and nowhere to go, walking the streets all alone
Another night you wish you could forget, making yourself up as you go along

[Chorus 1]
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel

[Main Riff]

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[Verse 2]
Yet to be born, you were already dead, sleep with a gun beside you in bed
Follow through to the obvious end, slit your veins wide open, you bleed it out

[Chorus 2]
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel

[Main Riff]

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Oh you should’ve been a mother, you should’ve been a wife
You should’ve been gone from here years ago, you should be living a different life

[Chorus 3]
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Who’s gonna take you home tonight? Who’s gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel
True trans soul rebel

[Main Riff]

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