Battery chords by Aesop Rock
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Intro 1
(E minor) (A major) (D major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (E minor)
Verse 1
Yo, change the fuckin' (E minor)
channel
I burn a (A major) coma candle
(D major) When the flame fades,
(E minor) consider my flatline a soldier's sample
We them cats talkin' noise behind
that New (A major) York trash heap
(D major) Where the stench of (D minor) commuter (E minor) briefcase
replaces a bad sleep
And it's (what) worker zig- (G major) zagers versus
piggy (A major) badge (D major) flashers
Training generation fallout
(E minor) Waterfall bricklayer
pincushion crawl out
(G major) There's smoke (A major) in my ir (D major) is
But I painted a sunny (E minor) day on
the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (what you
ready (G major) for?)
(A major) I'm ready for life (D major) in this city
And my (E minor) wings have grown almost
enough to lift me (B minor)
(E minor) I'm a dinosaur (B minor) with Jones
Beach (G major) in my hourglass (A major)
(D major) Passing the time with serial killer (E minor) coloring
books and bags of marbles
Don't tell me you ain't the droid (G major) that held
the (A major) match to (D major) the charcoals
Don't tell me Lucifer and God (E minor)
don't carpool
This is our school
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Verse 2
I'm (E minor) not trying to graduate (G major) life
(E minor) at the personalized (D major) bar stool
Head in a (D minor) jar (E minor) with a desk,
feet dangling in a shark pool
(Man please) (B minor) man please
(G major) My name (A major) stands for my (D major) being
And my being stand (E minor) s for the
woman who stood
And braved the storm could
raise the seedling
Brother, sun, sis (G major) ter, moon, (A major)
mother (D minor) beautiful
Yeah, (D major) middle sibling (E minor) suitable but
far from son of excellence
Back in the long time ago,
I was (A major) to way the wishes (D major) wish
But (D minor) misser (E minor) s miss,
I slept through my appointment (man)
Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand
babies (G major) solid (A major) ify
And picked the (D major) rose, it wilted
The second (D minor) I (E minor) introduced
myself as nervous
Well it appears the scars of
(A major) learning have spoken
(D major) Some are burn (E minor) ing, some are frozen
Some deserve tall tales,
some wrote them
Some are just a brutal repercus
sions (A major) of devotion (D major)
Mine are all of the above,
(E minor) 'cause everything leads to erosion
Now where I live there's
a homeless man
He sit (A major) s upon a crate (D major) (yeah)
He makes a rusty trumpet sound (E minor) like
the music that angels make
Now if you ever come and visit me,
I suggest (A major) you watch (D major) the show
Tell him Aesop Rock sen (E minor) t ya just to hear his horn blow like
Interlude 1
this
(E minor) (D major) (A major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (A major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major) (E minor)
Verse 3
And I (E minor) ain't getting any younger
My (G major) knuckles (A major) wear their (G major) bruises (D major) well
I've yet to lose that (E minor) hunger (oh)
But only time can tell
Prodigal son with a prodigal wish
(G major) to sew that (A major) prodigal stitch
(D major) And crucify bigot voodoo (E minor) doll
on two popsicle sticks
See your name is ambiguity
My (G major) name (A major) is something
hands (D major) can't hold
But hearts (E minor) part oceanscapes just
to watch the starlet unfold
It's like sketching a circle in the
dirt (G major) with a (A major) pointed stick
(D minor) Knowing the wind'll kill it (E minor) some day,
still it calls my burning wits for now
And if I plow the fields,
that don't guar (A major) antee plentiful (D major) harvest
But starving (E minor) artists die,
I set my alarm for five o'clock
Idols block survival crops the cycle (A major) stops
for noth (D major) ing (what)
The bible's carp reviv (E minor) alist
winos flock by the hundreds
To the opening,
scarlet carpets greet (A major) ing their duel (o (D major) h)
Leading the stubborn mule
(E minor) to cruel rug burn
But y'all numb from gut fuel
Verse 4
I (E minor) administer eclipse,
there ain't no mo (D major) tor like a martyr- made motor
(G major) 'Cause a martyr- (E minor) made motor
don't quit (quit)
I am an epiphany,
I am (A major) webbed foot mammal
(D major) Channel surfing my way to the (E minor) top
Tugboat in a bottle
With no holes poked in the nozzle (B minor)
(E minor) I fed (D major) 'em bedlam diluted in limelight
Till that rook (E minor) ie boogie graduated
hostile (hostile)
And the vehicle is grandeur (G major) and it
veered (A major) over (D major) the medi (D minor) um
The second my halo ran (E minor)
outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown,
damn talk (G major) about numb (A major) skull
I was born (D major) bound to a sten
(D minor) cil called (E minor) symmetry
But my energy's a rental
So I take this now to (G major) say
(A major) Thank (G major) you, sen (D major) orita behold
(E minor) ing a flame to a lost wick
Thank you James Anthony for
the Band- Aids on (G major) my ego
(A major) Y'all (G major) are fam (D major) ily for life
I'll take (E minor) that bullet to preserve you
I wannna be something spectacular
On the day the (A major) sun runs outta (D major) batteries
Attach (E minor) my fashion to the
casualties of anarchy
Save my nickels up to buy that home
(A major) less man a (D major) brand new horn
Then sit (D minor) up on his (E minor) crate as
I witness the beauty born like this
Verse 5
I (E minor) (D major) (E minor) ain't gettin' any younger
Outro 1
(E minor) (A major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (A major) (E minor)
(A major) (D major)
(E minor) (A major) (G major)
(D major) (E minor) (A major)
(D major) (E minor) (A major)
(D major) (E minor) (A major)
(D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor)
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