Crabapples In The Century's Storm chords by Frontier Ruckus

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Intro 1

Verse 1

You say that you've forgotten

But I know that you're rotten in your

sweet little way

Verse 2

Like the crabapples

Themselves like ornaments

Fermented in the suspense

Of their sweet decay

Verse 3
C 
D# 
 (C major)  (D sharp major) 
Em 
Drinking Shell station  (E minor) wine beneath the
C 
Sylvan  (C major) Lake willow
D 
My prophesied  (D major) Rebecca on
C 
D 
my bike  (C major) trail and pillow  (D major) 
Em 
 (E minor) I   still see your cheeks so red in
C 
Pontiac  (C major) summer
D 
The pulverized  (D major) sidewalk and
C 
the ra (C major) cing and the stupor
Em 
Or in  (E minor) danger, and the kids using
C 
D 
a  (C major) milk jug for a basketball  (D major) 
I'd risk it all to ask it all,
C 
to  (C major) bask the fall again in splendor

Verse 4

Tracing your rotten spine

Verse 5
C 
Oh, but when  (C major) you hair
was still long
D 
 (D major) Everything a new song and
C 
the heat (C major) er and the theater
Em 
Soiled  (E minor) tights and the nights
C 
Where we touched  (C major) in standing darkness
D 
The  (D major) odor was magnetic and
C 
we wore  (C major) it like a harness
Em 
 (E minor) My  memory

Verse 6
is freezing in your
C 
dead  (C major) night winter attic
D 
C 
Evacuated  (D major) all except for the  (C major) electric static
Em 
Of our bod (E minor) ies sparking on
C 
the car (C major) pet and the mattress
G 
C 
D 
 (G major)  (C major) Something  (D major) made a tar pit out
C 
of what  (C major) was once a fortress
Em 
 (E minor) Who

Verse 7

can really say?

Maybe I took that for granted

But somehow my lips never left

Where the back of your neck slanted

Verse 8
D 
Oh,  (D major) my little wastrel
Em 
My sweet  (E minor) lost friend
D 
My piss  (D major) is in the tendrils
A 
Of your  (A major) rented house ivy
C 
That ensnares  (C major) the end
Suspended there

Verse 9
Em 
Like the  (E minor) crabapples
C 
Themselves  (C major) like ornaments
D 
That's  (D major) what you said one morning
C 
Looking out the back  (C major) window
of my parents'

Verse 10

Weren't some mornings so fine?

Verse 11

There inside that book I gave you

Maybe there's a line you wrote to re

mind you or to save you

Verse 12
Pretty "bois" sell shitty ploys
C 
But mark  (C major) down all they're
D 
telling  (D major) 
Catchphrases that vaporize
C 
With (C major) in ironic spelling

Verse 13

But now the crabapples are in

the century's storm

The World Series is over

And the world's collapsing in its form

Verse 14

I think of all those young names that

day on the stones we read

Then cold Arizona Iced Tea when the

cemetery scorched us red

Verse 15
C 
Em 
 (C major)  (E minor) 
D 
Em 
 (D major) Now  (E minor) I   am blind to your
weekends
C 
The snorting kind of your new friends  (C major) 
D 
 (D major) But there's a lot where Washtenaw ends
C 
Em 
 (C major) that you might recall  (E minor) 
G 
 (G major) I

Verse 16

know the way your body bends

In the parked van where still impends

The smoking frozen moment and

The cataclysm of it all

Verse 17

And I know your girlhood diary pens

I read it back to you with tenderness

Inside that summer bed

Across your mother's hall

Verse 18
Em 
 (E minor) Did I die inside the cleanse
C 
Of blinding-  (C major) sun Lake Huron lens
D 
Where  (D major) we were perfect?—that depends
C 
It's all  (C major) just sand and squall
D 
 (D major) Do you

Verse 19

still hum when night descends?

I thought it was your calmness then

But it's your motor panicking

With the animals trapped in your wall

Verse 20
C 
D 
 (C major)  (D major) 
Em 
All the  (E minor) boys that you fucked over
Eventually got out of Ann Arbor
D 
Em 
 (D major) Honey, how come you're still stuck  (E minor) behind
C 
G 
 (C major) The counter?  (G major) 