Leeds

Intro: GDFGC GDF G D C It's dark at four PM in Leeds G D F the steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleeds G D F Gm Cm F C Cm The absent sound of another day as it recedes into the shadows until it's nothing G D C Fax papers slipped under the hotel room door G D F like food for the prisoner or the prospect to the whore G D F Gm Cm F C Cm Well fed and halfway drunk I ache myself for more until I'm shadows of myself until I'm nothing C A7 G Cm Sixteen black churches burning on the TV C A7 G Cm all the way from Texas to Tennessee C A7 G Cm Gm Cm F C Cm a politician locks my eye and says to me there is no crisis here there's no conspiracy G D F C I crave inertia every move made so I can stop G D F Whatever this madness is in me spinning like a top G D F Gm Cm F C Cm on a bed of anxiety over a deep dark drop down into nothingness into without-youness C A7 G Cm Was it ever so evil creep like ivy, C A7 G Cm toe hold on the stronger half of nature's dichotomy C A7 G Cm Beating back a path through nothing more than pure insistence Gm Cm F CCm Until here becomes the distance Interlude: GDFC GCm G D F C Hold my head love I'm sick tonight G D F find the open hole and press your finger there will all your might G D F before the last ounce of my spirit bleeds Gm Cm F C Cm G onto the pristine sheets of the hotel bed in Leeds