True North chords by
Me Rex
Me Rex

N/A
Key: B minor
Intro 1
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
I celebrate you
Verse 1
at somebody's
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B
E
E
G#m
G#m
kitchen table in the true south in the night- time
B
B
two years later tear myself down to
E
E
the hard white bone alone
G#m
G#m
attempted expressing
genuine sentiment
B
B
E
E
it felt like drinking cement
but it kept me alive
G#m
G#m
and the sickness of a distant friend is
B
B
E
E
a death to the distance for a little while
Verse 2
E
E
but there is no true north
F#
F#
there is no real truth at all
B
B
oh headaches and nausea
E
E
someone to talk to
B
B
I was that person, I am not anymore
E
E
Verse 3
G#m
G#m
dreamt of marching the earth
but you could not feel the curvature
B
B
E
E
caught under the paw of
the great dog of inertia
G#m
G#m
I will rise and leave the city
I will never leave the house
B
B
E
E
I will slip twixt kitchen tables
of my best friends in the south
G#m
G#m
a sort of entropy increases and
we pale and lose all meaning
B
B
E
E
forget I was the first to celebrate
you in the dark
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
B
B
E
E
we used to call you ""the double- knot"" every time you got like this we'd say ""You're twice as negative"" you'd say ""No I am not it's just that there is no true north,
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
there is no real truth at all"" You are a distant city, a shrinking whisper, you are the worst one of us all
E
E
Verse 4
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
the divine androgyne at the heart of the artifice, the pressure building up until you're glowing like a noble gas.. You know not to react and so you pound your fists and sink in dirt, you talk in maudlin little prayers, whatever kills the voices first. A super callous flagellant, a comedy of accidents, acting dead inside the ambulance,
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
E
E
G#m
G#m
B
B
a play for sympathy or forgiveness, I always dreamt I'd fake my death, I'd hit my head and wipe my memory clean. I'd wake up next to somebody like you and be a better person, get used to the feeling of being something you'd be scared to lose, like waiting for a reason or a change that isn't coming soon.
E
E
Verse 5
B
B
And you, you be the dirt and the dust in my clean cuts,
F#
F#
B
B
you be the hollow ceremony in my mother tongue
E
E
B
B
you be the great bull- muscled boy that I will never become,
G#m
G#m
B
B
I have been ever so sorry for ever so long
E
E
Verse 6
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
and now bloodied up enough times until the skin just quit healing and a million TV fu nerals won't tell me how you must be feeling,
G#m
G#m
B
B
E
E
B
B
E
E
living like you have no skin is all that she has ever known, they pass her like a cloud and I secretly hope it chokes them like there is no true north
F#
F#
There is no real truth at all
B
B
E
E
and you are hard to be around
G#m
G#m
B
B
it got difficult not to care
Outro 1
about you anymore
E
E

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG#m B E F#