The Splendid World chords by
Frontier Ruckus
Frontier Ruckus
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Key: F major
Intro 1
D
D

F#
F#

Daug
Daug

F#
F#

Bm
Bm

G
G

D
D

A
A

Asus4
Asus4

A
A

Verse 1
Em
Em

This
year's robin's breast is not as red
D
D

The entire nest is underfed
G
G

D
D

Every bed I've made has broken
down
A
A

Asus4
Asus4

A
A

G
G

Verse 2
Em
Em

The AA meeting is letting out
D
D

From the parking lot where
my mother let me try out
G
G

D
D

Driving my grandfather's car
when I was just fourteen
Asus4
Asus4

A
A

Verse 3
If the splendid world
G
G

wants to end and rid us
D
D

I wish it'd just get on with it
F#
F#

G
G

and forbid us
D
D

I can't keep track of what I own
F#
F#

Verse 4
A
A

My brightest day was
G
G

poisonous but agile
D
D

F#
F#

And then you decay in a way so fragile
G
G

D
D

E
E

Bb
Bb

In the sticky shade with an ice cream cone
D
D

Interlude 1
Daug
Daug

F#
F#

Daug
Daug

F#
F#

G
G

D
D

Asus4
Asus4

A
A

Verse 5
Em
Em

Whatever happened to the little sailboat
D
D

We kept behind the shed
but only once made float?
G
G

D
D

I used to climb upon it onto
the roof
A
A

Asus4
Asus4

A
A

G
G

Verse 6
Em
Em

And now the earwigs climb the trashcan
D
D

I figure I'll become
a sort of watery man
G
G

Pissing in my night backyard
D
D

Distributing the proof
A
A

Verse 7
G
G

You can keep a record of all your meals
D
D

F#
F#

And the way that each day feels
G
G

D
D

Safe and well- preserved
in some hidden cavity
F#
F#

Verse 8
A
A

But all your private and
G
G

D
D

precious locales
F#
F#

All your hidden heavens and all your pals
G
G

D
D

Are gonna succumb
E
E

to the brutal gravity
Bb
Bb

Baby I know
Interlude 2
Bm
Bm

Daug
Daug

G
G

D
D

Asus4
Asus4

A
A

Verse 9
G
G

The splendid world is immune to flattery
D
D

It burst me on the sidewalk
Bm
Bm

like a run- over battery
A
A

G
G

D
D

All my metallic innards
A
A

Bm
Bm

come pooling out
Verse 10
A
A

G
G

To try to name this is to be less famous
D
D

If I were dumber and detestable
Bm
Bm

I'd be more successful
G
G

But on the sharp scorched grass
A
A

there's nothing else to sing about
D
D

A
A

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