Paralytic Stalks

Tabbed by: pixiesrule73 Tab type: Chords 1. "Gelid Ascent" 2. "Spiteful Intervention" 3. "Dour Percentage" 4. "We Will Commit Wolf Murder" 5. "Malefic Dowery" 6. "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" 7. "Wintered Debts" 8. "Exorcismic Breeding Knife" 9. "Authentic Pyrrhic Remission" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Gelid Ascent" Gm7 Gm You are what parasites evolved from Still an unanswered question You are the refused energy from a superior form Ab Nothing that occurs to you is intended for your involvement Gm You're an irrelevant effect Unavoidable, but of low influence One last thing that you must understand To be dead is to be confused, to be mistaken Gm You speak to me Bb/F Like the anguish of a child doused in flames Eb Oh, you speak to me Ab Like the stones bashing your skull and brain exposes Gm It's always been the same Bb/F 200,000 years of viciousness Eb The violent heart dissolves Ebm A simple, weak, cracked-out species Gm You speak to me Bb/F Like your life was annihilated in space Eb You speak to me Ab In a voice that ? Gm What do you know? Bb/F You know nothing of the ? of everything Eb The straight righteousness of abandonment Ebm The dehumanized regress of love Gm You speak to me Gm Bb/F Eb Ab Gm Bb/F Eb Ebm Gm Bb/F Eb Ab Gm Bb/F Eb Ebm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. "Spiteful Intervention" Eb Gm Fm Abm Eb It's fucking sad Ebm That we need a tragedy to occur Db7 Gb To gain a fresh perspective in our lives Eb Nothing happens for a reason Ebm There's no point even pretending Db7 Gb You know the sad truth as well as I Eb Oh god, the morning light Ebm Sun rays bring my paranoia Db7 Gb Eb I can't function unless I'm the only one awake Eb B Db Gb Eb Rancour of our Bmaj7 Last conversation that Db7 Gbmaj7 Fucking word you deform to Eb Handicap me then Bmaj7 Abuse your advantage Db Eb I'm nervous my soul is returning to crystals Bmaj7 Db7 Gbmaj7 Because your eyes are an agent of darkness Eb This is not meant to fight B It's just a bitter fait accompli (piano bass notes) Ab Ab A Bb Db Db F# B I spend my waking hours haunting my own life C#7 C#7/F F# F7 I made the one I love start crying tonight B And it felt good C#7 F# D#m C# Still there must be a more elegant solution F# B Lately I'm rotted in the filth of C#7 C#7/F Self-offered agonies that really should F# F7 Fill me with shame B But all I have is this manic energy Ab Db Ab/C Bbm Gb Fm I lost my page in being The black-stamp disciple in your heart collage Eb This is wrong to celebrate we Bmaj7 Need to suffer more Db7 Face our purility band (n.c) Eb Comforts officiate Bmaj7 Devise new stratagems to Db bass Disembowel our quotidian characters F# B I spend my waking hours haunting my own life C#7 C#7/F F# F7 I made the one I love start crying tonight B And it felt good C#7 F# D#m C# Still there must be a more elegant solution F# B I know I'm upside down about you C#7 C#7/F F# F7 Your kindness feels like blasphemy or some sick education B On the limits of humanity Ab Db So I profane the laws of some victorian garbage Ab/C Db7 And listen to you smashing up my studio again F# B I spend my waking hours haunting my own life C#7 C#7/F F# F7 I made the one I love start crying tonight B And it felt good C#7 F# D#m C# Still there must be a more elegant solution F# B C#7 Lately all I can produce is psychotic vitriol C#7/F F# F7 That really should fill me with guilt B But all I have is asthmatic energy Ab Db Ab/C Bbm (last note Eb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. "Dour Percentage" Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 C We've woken up alone Em No song to sing us off the edge Fmaj7 The speakers are blown Dm7 F This planet is an orphanage C E7 Deep abandonment issues at our core Dm7 But if not each other, there's f**k all G To really keep hustling for. C Ain't got no ride Em Least not one that returns our message Fmaj7 Our parents aside Dm7 F This planet is an orphanage C Em/B Am And it cheapens us Fmaj7 G The way you and I torment each other Dm Gsus4 G Gsus4 G It's just the way we combine Cm7 Time for you to decide here on the concrete You a winter soldier Abmaj7 Fm7 Or just playing yourself and me too Cm7 Ebm7 I got your letter and it hurt me so many ways Absus4 Ab Had no breath to respond Fm7 Cm7 Boy, you let your brothers down Bb Eb You inhabit your own personal ghetto Ab Eb But no one's forcing you to stay there Ab G Our circle's not so cannibalistic, baby C We've woken up alone Em No song to sing us off the edge Fmaj7 The speakers are blown Dm7 F This planet is an orphanage C E7 Deep abandonment issues at our core Dm7 But if not each other, there's f**k all G To really keep hustling for. C Ain't got no ride Em Least not one that returns our message Fmaj7 Our parents aside Dm7 F This planet is an orphanage C Em/B Am And it cheapens us Fmaj7 G The way you and I torture each other Dm Gsus4 G Gsus4 G It's just the way we collide Cm7 It's time to make up your mind Here in the cellar Are you going to betray yourself Abmaj7 Fm7 Or come join us up on the dais Cm7 Ebm7 The conspiracy that's forever unfolding in your head Absus4 Ab It's just not real Fm7 Cm7 Boy you let your people down Bb Eb I murdered so much of myself here Ab Eb Just to try and accommodate you Ab G You know I saved your life A little too hey brother Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 Fm7 Dbmaj7 I don't resent you but I can't settle the debt Bbm Of our serrated history Eb And blows I haven't got over yet C Em/B Am And it cheapens us Fmaj7 G Gsus4 G The way you and I torment each other C Em Fmaj7 Dm F C Em Fmaj7 Dm F C Em/B Am Fmaj7 G Gsus4 G C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. "We Will Commit Wolf Murder" Ebmaj7 F Something's terrorized my psyche to get even Am Lately you're the only human I believe in Dm I tried to understand his logic But there's just no pattern there C No sympathetic voices anywhere Bb There's blood in my hair F Now I'm considered ugly from every angle Am You're the only beauty I don't want to strangle Dm Can't you hear me crying out for guidance? Yes, we hear but we don't care C No sympathetic victims anywhere Bb There's blood in my hair Dm I want to get all fucked up and tell you how I really feel F Because your fibre blackness cocoa arcury is so unreal Bb When I die I want you to die, too C Not try to stay in this all F C In a dimension without you, spit on this planet without you Bb I envy you because you can believe in things like I never could Dm F C And like, dose yourself into a coma over the bestiality of our race Bb Dm All I into some ancient reptilian form like an agnostic transubstantiation Don't know what that is (use your imagination) They paralyze my psyche to get even Lately you're the only dancer I believe in I would put your blood in my hair No sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair Anti-human armies spring from every angle You're the only soldier I don't want to strangle I can see this intolerance ? fate So don't expect us to cooperate Anyway, it's five blocks too late And there's blood in my hair Dm There is our most obliging harbor Dm For this illusion movies Dm I wish eyes be stung by Dm Tears of confusion Bbmaj7 Will you meet the common end Csus4 C To your odd-shaped mission? F No it isn't true C I don't believe in that kind of plot Bb But still I pray for you (chords are vague here) Bb We will produce verity/vanity holocausts Dm C We will commit acts of misery Bb We will weaponize silence in a sense F And we will forget Someone's terrorized my psyche to get even Lately you're the only human I believe in I suffer from this death, to find a kingdom razed Cherub corpses in the vapor Martyrs wrapped in butcher paper In the fall of monster ancestral angle You're the only dancer I don't want to strangle Can't you hear me crying out for guidance? Yes, we hear but we don't care No sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair F Am Dm C Bb F Am Dm C Bb b|-11-| Bb/E Gm I saw you laughing but tomorrow you'll say you were there You looked at me in disgust Girl, why should I care? There's blood in my hair There's blood in my hair There's blood in my hair Blood in my hair F**k (voices singing) Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb (guitar) D C#dim7 Bm Cm G Cm Ebm D C#dim7 Bm7 Cm G Cm Ebm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. "Malefic Dowery" G G Love is not a debtor's prison D7 You don't have to serve a sentence Am To pay back what you've been given G C G Mm-hm mm G Now I live in fear of your schizophrenic genius D7 It's a tempestuous despot Am That I can't seem to propitiate G C G Mm-hm mm Eb7 G Now I feel you're provoking me with your fidelity Eb7 That your loyalty and affections G D7 Are somehow a vulpine act of hostility Fm7 Now we're a bore, we're afternoon TV C This thing our minds are screaming to defy Fm7 How can I bury this rebellion C G While proving that I'm still your rock 'n' roll ally? (Dm) (n.c.) Once more I turn to my crutch for counsel C Fmaj7 G And it won't disappoint me Dm B7 I know it's the shadow cast by what's looming Cmaj7 Fmaj7 G Eb7 G And not the thing in itself that engenders fear Eb7 D7 Fm7 I was dreaming of the hunt C You clapped your hands sharply twice to wake me up Fm7 Oh, darkness was gripping the sky C G I knew I could still be your rock 'n' roll ally fade on G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" C Am7 Am6 Am6 Am7 Am7 Am6 C Am7 Am6 Am6 Am6 Am7 Am6 C The sacrifice must be for Gm/Bb Some long dead deity, babe I Am F Just can't get hard for reality Dm At least not mine C Your love charity is like Gm/Bb Am An immortal bleeding beast and here Em Am As if to motivate my heart to function B5 C Dm Em Dm C This age is a bitch that burns our dreams so ? Am Can only turn away G I wonder can I produce enough heat Em To keep our experimental high Ebmaj7 I told you I could I couldn't cope Am Bm G#m F# Seeing the disappointment in your eyes Emaj7 Eb7 Bm Bdim/F C#dim/G Bm Dm/A Bdim/F C#dim/G C (bass) F G F Am C (guitar chords for next two minutes) Am D (bass notes) A F# E Oh Nina, how can I defend myself against this world D That batters me like a retarding cartoon A D It's too soon for salvation but that word is just a joke A C D E Oh Nina, my whole system is chaos I'm desperate for something but there's no human word for it I should be happy but What I feel is corrupted, broken, impotent and insane Oh Nina, I have become so hateful How am I ever going to survive this winter? I can think of nothing but getting my revenge Make those fuckers pray, not going to happen And it's eating a hole in me Eating a hole in me It's eating a hole Eating a hole Eating a hole in me (solo same chords as above) (then hold on Am) (n.c.) It'll happen see each suffering repeat Our self concession too foul to mention G#m B/F# C#m G#m B/F# D#m C#m I've inherited spiritual sanctions For some old ancestral crime It was committed long ago But the punishment's absolved all down the family line Everyone's so unstable on my mother's side And emotionally barren on my father's side F#7 B But tell me how can I attempt to atone E B For somebody else's wilful ignorance? E Ooohh F# F# F# F# B F# F# F# F# B (etc. with variations in bass notes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. "Wintered Debts" Dm G Can't survive another comedown day Dm Fmaj7 When my spirit houses so much pain C F Faddb5/C C Em Am G So much bitterness, so much bitterness Dm G I need to teach myself to feel again Dm Fmaj7 Somehow I lost the thread of being human C F Faddb5 C Em Am G F Wrapped up in this bitterness, too much bitterness Am Gaug I'm so confused, what is the function of this ego sickness? C F7 Uselessly believe in myself hatred whisperings Em Am I can't deal with mourning at the carcass of my failures any longer Em Am Ebm7b5 Slipping on my own vomit Dm G While I tried to call you from a bathroom in Sao Paulo, Dm Fmaj7 C F But I was too drunk to formulate any sort of earthly language, so much bitterness Faddb5 C Em Am G Too much bitterness Other people can say there is a true belief system But all my life I've been betrayed by my mother's religion So much bitterness, too much bitterness I'm so destroyed what is the purpose of this ego sickness? Uselessly deceived myself by virgin whisperings And I can't deal with mourning at the carcass of my failures any longer Any longer Em Am Em Am Can't seem to get the saddle on the Spoils of this morbid fugue My mantras of subhuman nature, just a veil for all elation The ink's dripping all over me The only regret I have is caring Are we posing? Are we props Riding the anger 'till it stops? Dm6 d|-(5)-| Father, will we starve today? Father will we starve? Father, will we starve today? Father will we starve? No my child, there are wild women in here and a crafty fish am I No my child, there are wild women in here and a fleshy catch am I Will our quarters be the sunken earth deep beneath the meadow? Will our quarters be the sunken earth deep beneath the ground? No my child, you lay your head upon an ousted (?) felon No my child, you rest your head upon a gross misdeed Father, will a ??? of curse enough to find me Father will a ??? a fictim who abuse No my child ??? distunction ??? is a symbol of delight Am (for ages) (Dm6) Am Amaj7 F#m6 It's hard to sympathize with those that won't fight for themselves Amaj7 B7 I can't hold both our faces off the flames much longer Gb Fm Db The child of our struggle is free Gb Fm E6 D6/A I've fallen out of love with the prisoner A Dmaj7 Bm That's to save us A(maj7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. "Exorcismic Breeding Knife" (whole song is chromatic orchestral passages) There's flash of dead eyed in these horse faced hours of ours Don't let this be how I'll be remembered The truest humanity seems to be in dialogue Torn to paper shredded cowboy menace True love never hated The two donkey childs that will be remembered for our hearing Is there a therapist? Is there a psychosis? Is there a comedy outside? How can you perform, how can you operate? Is there a solution then? Why is there an apocalyse? There's no such thing How can you operate, how can you perform, how can you exploit? How can you operate, how can you operate, how can you perform? How can you operate, how can you perform? How can you operate, how can you perform? How... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. "Authentic Pyrrhic Remission" F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G(note) G#m F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G(note) G# F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m So much violence in my head, how are we still alive? B The depression is under control G G#m (No it's not, don't you ever stop lying, damn) F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G G#m F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G G#m F# G#m A# D#m I love how we're learning from each other G#m You are such a positive A# You're so empowering F# G#m C# D#m In your hands I'm quite simply a different instrument G#m B And you're the only one that ever put money on me A# You think that I'd forget so easily G#m F#/A# B You emit a charged autumnal vibe E F# I know we're of the same tribe E The fall's our most productive season G#m F#/A# B E C F D Bm C# Still a crippling fear has become Caesar and we're slightly moribund F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m so, naturally I want to help you invoke the architect of salutary memes B G G#m Our heads are pregnant with divine mechanics but, oh, how we're tyrannized F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m G#m By tentacles of their ferine stupidity and it's all so disappointing (But you're different) F# G#m A# D#m G#m I love how we're learning, learning from each other A# You're so empowering F# G#m C# D#m In your hands I'm quite simply a different instrument G#m B And you're the only one that ever put money on me A# Tried to advance trans-human singularity F# G#m A# D#m I love how we're learning from each other G#m You are such a positive A# You're so empowering F# G#m C# D#m In your hands I'm quite simply a different instrument G#m B And you're the only one that ever put money on me A# You think that I'd forget so easily F# G#m A# D#m G#m I love how we're learning, learning from each other (n.c.) F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A# F# G#m A# D#m G#m A# F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A# F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A# D#m Every time I listen to my heart I just get hurt D#m (for ages) (orchestral passages) C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 Until this afternoon I was a nomad C# F#m6 No country would call me its son C# F#m6 I'd be a refugee but I have no substance C# F#m6 Asking for papers, I have none C# F#m6 C# F#m6 Until this afternoon I was a pariah C# F#m6 A mongrel chased and kicked and hit C# F#m6 Hunted even in my dreaming C# F#m6 Though there was no crime I did commit C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 Until this afternoon I was an exile C# F#m6 But now that word is obsolete C# F#m6 There are no nations, no concept of ego C# F#m6 Our illumination is complete C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 (fade)