The Black Bird, The Dark Slope chords by 
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Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
Eb
Ab
Eb
The black bird sits atop my guts
Bb
and spreads its wings for flight
Ab
Eb
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out,
my stomach sucked in
Ab
Eb
Its wingtips push across my lungs
Bb
and fill them full of feathers
Eb
But the brushstrokes feel like
Verse 2
hearth pokes into my skin
Eb
Ab
The black bird feasts upon my guts and
Gm
bears its beak to fight
Ab
My shoulders back , my jaw pushed out,
Eb
my stomach sucked in
Ab
Its wingtips push across my lungs
Bb
Gm
and fill them full of feathers
Bb
Ab
Now they poke between my
Eb
teeth and that's why I thirst
Interlude 1
Eb
Verse 3
Ab
Eb
Cm
When he flies me to the top
Bb
Ab
Cm
Bb
there's nothing but the fo g
Ab
Eb
Ab
Eb
Cm
A heart of stone , egg shell for bones,
Bb
Ab
they lead you to be lost
Cm
Eb
Ab
Eb
Cm
Eb
The dark slope drag
Ab
Eb
s you down
Cm
Gm
Eb
The black bird is a part of me,
Ab
Eb
Cm
Eb
Fm
Eb
so sad to see
Fm
So sad to be me
Verse 4
Fm
Ab
Eb
Ab
Eb
I ask be fore I go for you to drop
Bb
a lit match down my throat
Ab
And smoke the bastard out
Eb
or burn him to a cris p
Ab
Cause I'm already carrion,
Eb
Bb
been eaten from the inside too long
Eb
Ab
This black bird wants to rip
Eb
me limb from limb
Ab
Bb
The black bird dips its beak in blood and writes
Gm
Eb
its thoughts in cursive 'cross
Ab
The bones that are its
Eb
jailer and my ribcage
Ab
And when you turn me inside out,
Bb
Gm
be lieve in me without a doubt
Ab
The word s were all of his
Eb
and none of mine
Interlude 2
Eb
Verse 5
Eb
Ab
Eb
Cm
When he flies me to the top
Ab
Cm
Bb
there's nothing but the fo g
Ab
Eb
Cm
A heart of stone, egg shell for bones,
Bb
Ab
Cm
Eb
they lead you to be lost
Cm
Eb
The dark slope drags you down
Ab
Eb
Cm
Eb
Ab
Eb
Cm
Eb
The black bird is a part of me,
Fm
Eb
so sad to see
Fm
So sad to be me
Outro 1
Eb
Fm
Eb
Fm
Eb
Fm
Eb
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Ab Bb Gm Cm...
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Gm
Cm
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