That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things chords by The Black Dahlia Murder
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Intro 1
(B major) (C major) (F sharp major) (C major) (B major) (B5) (F sharp5) (F sharp minor) (C major)
(B major) (A minor) (B5)
(A minor) Won't (F sharp5) you (C major) rest your ruined head,
Verse 1
(E minor)
(B5) my weary child?
This (C major) would 'twas not for (B5) thee
I (E minor) (C major) (B major) (B5) (E minor) send (A minor) (F sharp minor) you
(C major) now the (E minor) promised land (B major)
(F sharp5) Not (E minor) one breath did (B major) you
(B5) heave (C major) (E minor) stilly born
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Verse 2
Unto this earth (E minor) (C major) sleeping
so soundly (F sharp5) (F sharp minor) in my (B major) arms
(B5) A slug- (E minor) like trail of (A minor) ocher (C major) fluids
(B major) where (B5) we've (A minor) danced
(F sharp minor) The sun (C major) is setting (E minor) now,
(B5) I hold a modest hand (B major) in vain (C major)
My lung emit a (B major) sigh,
(B5) (B major) what (A5) fiend (F sharp minor) (C major) would
Take these tiny (E minor) eye (B major) (E minor) s and
(B5) show (E minor) them to (B major) (D sharp minor) the dark (C major)
God's (E minor) just (B major) a (E minor) lie (B major) (E minor)
Nev (B5) er born (C major) (B major) in
Verse 3
(C major) to (B5) this (C major) den of sin (E minor)
That which erodes the (C major)
(E minor) most tender (B major) of (D sharp minor) thing s
(E minor) After the eve have fallen (B major)
(A minor) The (C major) lights are sink (F sharp5) (F sharp minor) ing low
(B5) Shad (E minor) ows would hide that life
(C major) In him could (B major) nev (B5) er (A minor) grow
(E minor) A
Verse 4
hollow gaze peers (F sharp minor) from
the cradle black (B major)
(E minor) Imagining his shining eyes just (F sharp5) sock
(F sharp minor) ets staring back (E minor)
Witness the (A minor) bap (E minor) tism (F sharp minor) skeletal
the world would shun
(E minor) Reject the purest form of love,
a mother (F sharp minor) to her son
I (E minor) (F sharp minor) (B5)
Verse 5
(B major) (C major) (E minor) (B5) proceed
to nurse (B major) him (A minor) (C major)
(G major) I (E minor) could (B major) almost (B5) smile (C major) (E minor)
(B5) I entertain the notion
(A minor) (C major) That (G major) he (C major) did live (B5) this while
(C major) But (E minor) he's
Verse 6
(B5) dead to this world
(A minor) Carved (B major) out (E minor) just (B major) like (C major) (B major) my (E minor) heart (C major)
(E minor) Soaked (B5) up and washed so lovingly (A minor)
(A5) Cher (B major) ished (B5) son unconditionally
Interlude 1
(B5) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (B5) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (B5) (B major) (B5) (E minor)
Verse 7
(E minor) In our secret (B5) world alone (E minor)
Situation (B5) delicate crudely
(F sharp minor) frowned upon (A5) (E minor)
(C major) In our (A minor) sac (B major) red (B5) love undone (F sharp minor)
(E minor)
Verse 8
Never (B5) born (C major) into this den of sin (E minor)
That which erodes the most
tender (D sharp minor) of thing (B major) s
(E minor) After the eve has fallen
(A minor) The (C major) lights are sinking (F sharp minor) low (A5) (B major)
(B5) Shad (E minor) ows would hide that life (B major)
(A minor) In (C major) him could never (E minor) grow (B5) (E minor)
Verse 9
A hollow gaze (E minor) peers from
(F sharp minor) the cradle black (B major)
(E minor) Imagining his shining eyes just (C major) sock
(F sharp minor) ets staring back (E minor)
Witness the baptis (G major) (E minor) m (F sharp minor) skeletal
the world would shun
(E minor) Reject the purest form of love,
a mother (F sharp minor) to her putrid rotting son
That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things
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