The black ^G#bird sits atop my guts and ^D#spreads its wings for flight My shoulders ^G#back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach ^D#sucked in Its win^G#gtips push across my lungs and ^D#fill them full of feathers But the br^G#ushstrokes feel like he^D#arth pokes into my skin The b^G#lack bird feasts upon my guts and ^D#bears its beak to fight My shoulders ^G#back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach ^D#sucked in Its win^G#gtips push across my lungs and ^D#fill them full of feathers Now they p^G#oke between my teeth and that's wh^D#y I thirst

And w^A#hen he f^D#lies me ^A#to the t^D#op There's n^A#othing b^D#ut the f^A#og ^D# A hea^A#rt of s^D#tone, egg^A#shell fo^D#r bones They l^A#ead you^D# to be lost

^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down The ^D#black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down) A pa^D#rt of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down) The ^D#black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down) ^A#So ^D#sad to^A# se^D#e, so^A# sa^D#d

I a^G#sk before I go for you to drop a ^D#lit match down my throat And smoke the b^G#astard out, it'll burn him to a ^D#crisp 'Cause ^G#I'm already carrion, been e^D#aten from the inside too long This b^G#lack bird wants to rip me limb from ^D#limb The ^G#black bird dips its beak in blood And ^D#writes its thoughts in cursive 'Cross the b^G#ones that are its jailer and my r^D#ibcage And ^G#when you turn me inside out Bel^D#ieve in me, without a doubt The w^G#ords were all of his and none of ^D#mine

And w^A#hen he f^D#lies me ^A#to the t^D#op There's n^A#othing b^D#ut the f^A#og ^D# A hea^A#rt of s^D#tone, egg^A#shell fo^D#r bones They l^A#ead you^D# to be lost

^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down ^D#The dark slope drags you down The ^D#black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down) A pa^D#rt of me, so sad to see (The dark slope drags you down) The ^D#black bird is a part of me (The dark slope drags you down) ^A#So ^D#sad to^A# se^D#e, so^A# sa^D#d

Los Campesinos! - The black bird the dark slope