Lousy With Sylvianbriar

Album: Lousy with Sylvianbriar (2013) Artist: of Montreal Tabbed by: pixiesrule73 Tab type: Chords 1. "Fugitive Air" 2. "Obsidian Currents" 3. "Belle Glade Missionaries" 4. "Sirens of Your Toxic Spirit" 5. "Colossus" 6. "Triumph of Disintegration" 7. "Amphibian Days" 8. "She Ain't Speakin' Now" 9. "Hegira Émigré" 10. "Raindrop in My Skull" 11. "Imbecile Rages" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Fugitive Air" B A C A F G F C D E E E G I do wrong, strictly speaking, just for myself E Because it makes me feel like a real man G To hold hegemony over my business and I Dm C Cmaj7 Fmaj7 I refuse to be abused by the millieau of blissful decay D7 E F Besides, I'm used to all of my scruples deserting me C E7 Like they don't a dare B A The lady from the block hunched over on the stool C A With her withered old titty out F G F Saying I've been rolled so many times C It's just feeding the pigeons B A Now her grandson swings a little rabbit by the leg C A While his mother's playing two wooden flutes F G F C D E I went to repo some fugitive air to escape the street swagger aesthetic E Has anybody here seen my orphan blonde? G Has anyone seen where he's gone? E What he thinks I owe him is his former life but G How can I unmake someone else's mistakes? Dm C Cmaj7 Fmaj7 I guess I was his antihero, the bitter word on his lips D7 E F I hope I never feel a terror like when you discovered C E7 Your autonomy had flipped C Ebdim7 F I feel like I possess only the bad aspects Ebdim7 G F C E7 Of invisibility but none of the good ones C Ebdim7 F I'm a walking mausoleum, the scent of rotting flesh Ebdim7 G F C Mother always loved you best, liked your teeth upon her breast C Ebdim7 F They remove the oils from the eyes of sreet cats Ebdim7 G F C E7 Through some shitty witchcraft, and apply it to their brows and genitalia C Ebdim7 F I had no idea how deeply I wounded you Ebdim7 G But I don't need no forgiveness F C E7 And no level of contrition will ever do C La la la Ebdim7 F La la la la la la Ebdim7 G La la la la la la F C La la la la la la la E7 C La la la Ebdim7 F La la la la la la Ebdim7 G La la la la la la F C La la la la la la la C C Ooh-ah-ah C Ooh-ah-ah C Ooh-ah-ah Caug Ooh-ah-ah Am/C Caug Ooh-ah-ah Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Ooh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. "Obsidian Currents" E6 C#m7 E6 C#m7 F#m7 E6 C#m7 You like to think that you can E6 C#m7 F#m7 Live beyond good and evil E6 C#m7 Amputated from humanity E6 C#m7 F#m7 On some lifelong intellectual retreat Dm7 Everything is conceptual and All is rhetorical Cm7 You can feel so powerful Dm7 When you're forced to face the physical world Dm7 Em G You scurry like an insect Em G There is a virus in your tenets Am G Bbm Don't be naive, you know it's true Dm E7 And if you don't protect yourself Cmaj7 G Obsidian currents Cmaj7 D7 Obsidian currents Fm7 G Will devour you C B Em Fm7 F#m7sus4 Oh oh oh oooh oooooooooh E6 F#m7 E6 C#m7 You have committed yourself E6 C#m7 F#m7 Wholly to the dominion of semantics and ideas E6 C#m7 E6 All things cerebral and abstract C#m7 F#m7 No patience for impractical emotions Dm7 Burning everyone who Cm7 Ever try to get close to you Dm7 But you're so lizard-like you don't Dm7 Em G Feel any passion for anything but yourself Em G There is a virus in your tenets Am G Bbm Don't be naive, you know it's true Dm E7 And if you don't protect yourself Cmaj7 G Obsidian currents Cmaj7 D7 Obsidian currents Fm7 G Will devour you C B Em Fm7 F#m7sus4 Oh oh oh oooh oooooooooh E6 F#m7sus4 e|-0-| b|-0-| g|-2-| d|-4-| a|-4-| e|-2-| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. "Belle Glade Missionaries" F# F# F# F#m/B Bm F# F# F# Belle glade missionaries are here to steal your cocaine F#m/B You better send your malaria to puncture their brains Bm F# And send them back to where they came from D F#m/C# F#dim/C F# Send them back to their savannas of disease F# F# F# From your first psychotic episode to your drug induced schizophrenia F#m/B It's your dysphoric mania that makes you so likable Bm F# And everybody wanna save you D F#m/C# F#dim/C Save you just for themself F# F# D#m C# They're letting children get blown up in their schools today D#m C# So they can get them back into their factories A#m E7 A You know it pains me to see you all being so betrayed G#m C#7 But I guess you'll never know so it doesn't matter F# My fever must be high because these bitter winter winds Have made the bones in my jaw go hollow F#m/B Bm F# And there's a sense that there's a prowler on the prairie D F#m/C# F#dim/C Leaving hair on the walls F# F# F# We helped to flatten the sounds that bound down dolores st. F#m/B And my greatest fear released into someone else's consciousness Bm F# And now it's theirs to contend with D F#m/C# F#dim/C F# Ah, but still there's these razors to pretend with D#m C# They're letting children get blown up in their schools today D#m C# So they can get them back into their factories A#m E7 A You know it pains me to see you all being so deceived G#m C#7 But I guess you'll never know so it doesn't matter G#m6 Bm6 Am6 C#m6 Fm Eb I have the sense you wanna be the female henry miller Bbm Cynically referring to your lovers as your pricks Db And exploiting other people's madness G#m6 Bm6 Am6 C#m6 Fm On nexus You claimed to have called out to me Eb Telepathically through all archaic mediums Bbm But I never once heard you, so Db I think you were just lying again F# I feel like I've been becket's molloy-d Like something nature people avoid Like all my talent's been destroyed F#m/B LIke i'm a para-spectral voice Bm F# With no choices at the present D F#m/C# F#dim/C F# still there's a value in things unpleasant F# F# F# Well you post naked gifs of your epileptic fits And keep track of your hits F#m/B And your friends don't give a shit Bm F# And view your fugues with amusement D F#m/C# F#dim/C F# All the evil in the universe, there are no victims only participants F# F# D#m C# They're letting children get blown up in their schools today D#m C# So they can get them back into their factories A#m E7 A You know it pains me to see you all being so betrayed G#m C#7 But I guess you'll never know so it doesn't matter C#7 Doesn't matter F# F# (until the end) I can't trust my instincts lately they don't feel organic They feel more synthetic They feel more synthetic More synthetic Synthetic Synthetic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. "Sirens of Your Toxic Spirit" E7 A Bm7 E7 A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# Bm7 What I recall E7 A A/G# Remember best is insanity F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# And the clatter Bm7 Misapprehensions are E7 Killing you but not A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# Fast enough to really matter B The flume of your struggle D Is flooded with sorrow and it B D A Poisons everybody near it C#m F# I'm not a patron of yours anymore B B7 Don't want to hear it E7 F#m B7/F# F#m E7 The sirens of your toxic spirit E7 A Oooooooh oh oh oh Bm7 E7 Of your addictions and shiftingness A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# Inherited from your father Bm7 E7 I know you struggle to keep them in check A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# But at this point why even bother B The flume of your struggle D Is flooded with sorrow and it B D A Poisons everybody near it C#m F# I'm not a patron of yours anymore B B7 Don't want to hear it E7 F#m B7/F# F#m E7 The sirens of your toxic spirit E7 A Oooooooh oh oh oh Bm7 What friendships you have left E7 Do not derive from love A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# They're just some warped form of charity Bm7 E7 I've wounded you and you've wounded you too A A/G# F#m B7/F# F#m B7/F# At least we can feel good about the parity B The flume of your struggle D Is flooded with sorrow and it B D A Poisons everybody near it C#m F# I'm not a patron of yours anymore B B7 Don't want to hear it E7 F#m B7/F# F#m E7 The sirens of your toxic spirit E7 A Oooooooh oh oh oh end on A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. "Colossus" Em E Em E Em E Your mother hung herself in the National Theater Bm Am6 When she was four months pregnant with your sister E G#m/D# F#m Who would have been thirteen years old today B F#m B Does that make you feel any less alone in the world? Em E Your dad, I'm sure, he tried his best Bm Am6 He thought you'd be better off living with your grandmother E G#m/D# F#m He didn't realize that she'd already given up B F#m B Baby, your family, they are just losers G# C#7 I've become such a wolf around you F# A D My thoughts go dark and all out of focus E G#m/D# C#7 Have no peace in my mind Amaj7 Because you B7sus4add9 B7/A B7 You've touched me Amaj7 B7sus4add9 B7/A B7 Em E Em E Em E The screech owls are going insane outside my house Bm Am6 It is the season for trouble and self destruction E G#m/D# F#m All of my friends, they are falling apart B F#m B But not me, I'm in control Em E Remember the exquisite corpse that we created together Bm Am6 We laughed at the time, it seemed so impenetrable E G#m/D# F#m But reading it now I think I understand B F#m B What it is that we are trying to steal from each other G# C#7 I've become such a wolf around you F# A D My thoughts go dark and all out of focus E G#m/D# C#7 Have no peace in my mind Amaj7 Because you B7sus4add9 B7/A B7 You've touched me Em E Em E Em E Em E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. "Triumph of Disintegration" Intro piano: G#m7 C#7 F# D#m G#m7 C#7 The last ten days have been a motherfucker, F# D#m I didn’t know if I’d survive G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# The voice with the synapse that calls blood bats F# D#m Into action has now entered the tablelands G#m7 C# It’s only natural to feel a little imbalanced, F# D#m It’s a symptom of your hysterical need to be understood G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# You had to forgive your enemy cause it was making you psychotic F# D#m To keep fighting him inside of your head G#m7 C#7 But how could you allow these people whom you don’t even respect F# D#m To rape your self concept and make your inner world an ugliness? G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# B C# Thrashed through the forest like a tormented brute, Ddim7 B D# F# B I had to make myself a monster just to feel something ugly enough to be true G#m C#7 And then scratching wildly at the mirror in my heart to see their doleful faces F# B C# What is the flaw in just running away? Ddim7 B D# F# B Running away fixes everything, how can I why should I stay? G#m Just to view the triumph of disintegration? G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# D#m To live beneath language, or far above, it’s really not that different G#m7 C# At least now that the one thing that is good about me F# D#m Has begun to express itself in malicious ways G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# D#m G#m7 C# F# B C# Thrashed through the forest like a tormented brute, Ddim7 B D# F# B I had to make myself a monster just to feel something ugly enough to be true G#m C#7 And then scratching wildly at the mirror in my heart to see their doleful faces F# B C# What is the flaw in just running away? Ddim7 B D# F# B Running away fixes everything, how can I why should I stay? G#m Just to see the triumph of disintegration? C#7 Victories of devastation? F# B C# Ddim7 B D# F# B G#m F# B C# Ddim7 B D# F# B G#m C#7 C#7 Ddim7 Fdim7 F# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. "Amphibian Days" G C/G D/G C/G D/G C/G G C/G G G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G In the pen with the mastiffs bred to fight rats in the bowels of the arena G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D I received a kiss with a promise that produced deformities of happiness G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G The laughter there is viscous it leaves a residue down the legs of the chairs G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D Since you lost the will to hear they get your attention grabbing fistfuls of your hair Cmaj7 Bm7 These amphibian days they will not heel to you Cm7 Dm7 C G You can't defy the defining flaw of your generation D A Oh oh Bm7 A E Oh oh oh G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G The heavens vomited the dawn upon us as we learned how to occupy photographs G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D She descended a stairway composed of silk and flicked her cigarette G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G As I sweat through my black hex I saw you two climax in spasms through a frosted window G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D You both came in electronics and anthemic bursts of unsanitary flames Cmaj7 Bm7 These amphibian days they will not heel to you Cm7 Dm7 C G You can't defy the defining flaw of your generation D A Oh oh Bm7 A E Oh oh oh G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G If this is Tartarus, which of us is Echidna which one Arakiel? G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D This bastard conveyance of extinct emotions that we know only in our cells G Am Cmaj7 G Em Am G C/G I labor to tempt you out of your cage and into my patrol G Am Cm7 Bm7 E7 G7 C D Until this vessel lands I have decided to ignore all impulse control Cmaj7 Bm7 These amphibian days they will not heel to you Cm7 Dm7 C G You can't defy the defining flaw of your generation D A Oh oh Bm7 A E Oh oh oh ends on E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. "She Ain't Speakin' Now" A A/G Bb A Dm Dm Dbmaj7 Like some sepulchral tableau F I sit frozen holding your hand Dbmaj7 Though I’m trying to think only C Positive thoughts understand Bbmaj7 That place tomorrow F May not be there tomorrow, then Bbmaj7 F Your eviscerating, suffering will end Bbmaj7 C Oh, will you ever be yourself again? (single guitar notes on low E string) F F F F F F F F G G G G F F F F A A A A A A A A D D D D F F F F G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G (major) F Girl with the flu, I hear the death rheum Gm F She ain’t doin' well A Dm F Gm Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless G Her psyche's cracked or C7 A Bb A Anyhow, She ain't speakin' now Dm Dbmaj7 Nightfall, like some leaden sea F Dilates as I hold vigil by your bed Dbmaj7 C Watching the pillowcase soaking with sweat around your head Bbmaj7 Fmaj7 I can't repel this sneaking veil of morbidity Bbmaj7 Fmaj7 That's disfiguring the serif of your face Bbmaj7 C Oh, the organism's been debased F Girl with the flu, I hear the death rheum Gm F She ain’t doin' well A Dm F Gm Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless G Her psyche's shattered or C7 A Bb Anyhow, She ain't speakin' now A You scream that the books Are fallin' off of the shelf onto you F G But I can see them E Your hallucination ravings I'm writing them all down so Bb You can see read them C When your mind no longer aches C7 And your febrility breaks F Girl with the flu, I hear the death rheum Gm F She ain’t doin' well A Dm F Gm Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless G Her psyche's cracked or C7 A Bb Anyhow, She ain't speakin' now F Girl with the flu, I hear the death rheum Gm F She ain’t doin' well A Dm F Gm Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless G Her psyche's shattered or C7 A Bb A Anyhow, She ain't speakin' now Dm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. "Hegira Émigré" main guitar riff: C# B C# B C C# B C# B C C# B C Up in the hills they are C# B C G Having a white riot with no violence F# F Or protesting for change, C# B C# B C They simply buy it. C# B C# B C C# If you're thinking I'm Caucasian, B C C# Well I'm actually gray. B C G F# I was conceived on Ash Wednesday F C# B C# B C And stoned on Christmas day. C# B C# C# D D# A#m My baby's meditating to stop the war, F# But I got myself a rifle Bmaj7 'Cause I ain't gonna get A# Walked on anymore. C# B C# B C C# B C# B C C# B C C# Out my window I see a battle of hawks. B C G F# My best friend has been dead for years, F C# B C# B C But still we have great talks. C# B C# B C C# B C And just like the planets we will C# B C G F# Never touch, just float around in space F C# B C# B C Not expecting very much. C# B C# C# D D# A#m My baby's meditating to stop the war, F# But I got myself a rifle Bmaj7 'Cause I ain't gonna get A# Walked on anymore. C# B C# B C C# B C# B C C# B C C# We feel such hunger like vampire bats, B C G F# I got myself a gang F C# B C# B C And we're called the (sleek rats?). C# B C# B C C# B C I was out in the desert, C# B C Hunting UFO while I G F# F C# B C# B C Saw scorpions and aliens I already know. C# B C# C# D D# A#m My baby's meditating to stop the war, F# But I got myself a rifle Bmaj7 'Cause I ain't gonna get A# Walked on anymore. C# B C# B C C# B C# B C C# B C She gave him head till she C# B C G Lost a tooth, that's what she gets for F# F C# B C# B C Molesting people in the DJ booth. C# B C# B C C# B C I used to be a palace, now I'm C# B C G F# Just a dive. I've made a widow out of you F C# B C# B C Even though I'm still alive. C# B C# C# D D# A#m My baby's vegetating to stop the war, F# But I got myself a rifle Bmaj7 'Cause I ain't gonna get A# Walked on anymore. C# B C# B C C# B C# B C till the end on C# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. "Raindrop in My Skull" Bb/A Bb Gm6 A Bb/A Bb Gm6 A F Dm/F There's a raindrop in my skull Bbm C9sus4 I'm too shaky now to get it out F Dm/F I guess it fell from some far away cloud Bbm C9sus4 Bloated with radiation Gm/D Oh Dm Ebmaj7 Some people are singing of the birth Dm Ebmaj7 Bbm6 F Of another soulless troll who'll grow to leech off the Earth Bb C7 Oh F Dm/F My guitar feels strange in my hands Bbm Gm7 I have almost no tactile perceptions F Dm/F On the TV there's a Mexican horror film Bbm Gm7 It isn't dubbed, I'm not really watching Gm/D Oh Dm Ebmaj7 Some people are singing of the birth Dm Of another philistine Ebmaj7 Bbm6 F Who'll grow to ravage the earth Bb C7 Oh Db Last night when you left me Ebm I took a walk through the fog Db And the gossamer ride of the stong womb Ebm The haunting strangely humid picture Cm7 Bbm7 Winter's waning Cm7 My recurring dream of the swarm F Dm/F There's a raindrop in my skull Bbm Gm7 I'm too messed up now to get it out F Dm/F It must've fallen from a mind somewhere else Bbm Gm7 Now I'm fixating on it F Fmaj7 Bb C D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. "Imbecile Rages" D D/C# B7 Em Emb6 A7 Gmaj7 B/F# Em A7 A7 D A7 D Bb Your folks they are F F# Such lovely people A A7 I can't understand G D Where you came from Bb How long can it possibly take for One to realize F F# That the dream is over A A7 How many more nights G D Must you just humiliate yourself? A7 D D/C# B7 The pollution from your imbecile rages Em Emb6 Is licking at your heels A7 Gmaj7 B/F# Plotting red streaks across the desert of my eyes Em A7 I have no hope for you anymore D D A7add9 Oh oh D Bb When you said to my woman at the show F F# That we were just desperately breathing life into a dead ghost A A7 Do you really think these things you say G D They won't get back to me Bb I guess you feel like you got this lifetime pass And you can be a dick and F F# It doesn't matter A A7 But I'm through, yeah, I'm set free G D And basically you're just dead to me A7 D D/C# B7 The pollution from your imbecile rages Em Emb6 Is licking at your heels A7 Gmaj7 B/F# Plotting red streaks across the desert of my eyes Em A7 I have no hope for you anymore D D A7add9 Oh oh D A7add9 e|-3-| b|-2-| g|-4-| d|-2-| a|-0-| Cheers.