Coming Up Roses
Elliott Smith
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Tom:
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F#: 244322
D
: XX0232
A: X02220 B: 224442
E:
022100 Db: XX4121
Ebm: 111342 E*: 476454
F# A E Ebm D
Inrto:
A B D A B D
Vs.1
A B
I'm a junkyard full of false starts
D A
And I don't need your permission
B D A B
To bury my love under this bare light bulb
Br.1
D A B D
The moon is a sickle cell
A B Db
It'll kill you in time
D A B D
Your cold white brother riding your blood
Db
Like spun glass in sore eyes
Chorus
F# A E Ebm D
While the moon does its division you're buried below
A B D A B
And you're coming up roses everywhere you go
D
E*
Red roses follow
SOLO (over verse chords)
Br.2
The things that you tell yourself
They'll kill you in time
Your cold white brother alive in your blood
Spinning in the night sky
CHORUS (don't sing "follow" in the last line)
Chorus2
So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows
It's coming up roses everywhere you go
Red roses
End on Chorus chords
[Solo]
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|-7p5------------| |-7-5-7-5----------|---------------|
|-----4b---------|Play 2x's |----------6---6p4-|-4-------------|
|--------7----4--| |------------------|----7--4--6--7-|
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|--------6-----|--9-8----9p8-6---4---7-|
|-7-6-7--------|-----------------------|
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Intro: There's a little riff over the F# chord in the intro
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