Mount Eerie - Now only
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[Intro]
F Em C
[Verse 1]
I remember looFking around a hospital waiCting room
Full of people all absorbed in their own perFsonal catastropChes
All reading books like Being Mortal, all with a Flook in their eCyes
And I remember still feeling like, "GNo, no one can understand"
"No, my devastation is unique"
[Chorus]
But people get cCancer and die
People get hit by trGucks and die
People just lFiving their lives
Get erased for no reason
With the rEmest of us watching from the side G
And some people Chave to survive
And find a way to feel Glucky to still be alive
To Fsleep through the night
[Verse 2]
EmI wrote Gdown all the dFetails of how my house fell apart
FHow the person I loved got killed by a bad disease
Out of nowhere for no reason and me living in the blast zone
With our Amdaughter and etcetera
I made these songs
And the Cnext thing I knew I was standing in the dirt
Under the desert sky at night outside Phoenix
At a Ammusic festival that had paid to fly me in
To play these death songs to a bunch of young people on drugs
CStanding in the dust next to an idling bus
With Skrillex inside and the sound of subwoofers in the distance
AmI had stayed up til three
AmTalking to Weyes Blood and Father John Misty
About songwriting in the backstage bungalows
Eating Cfruit and jumping on the bed like lost children
Exploding across the earth in a self-indulgent all-consuming
AmWreck of ideas that blot out the stars
To be still alive felt so absurd
[Chorus]
People get Ccancer and die
People get hit by Gtrucks and die
People just Fliving their lives get erased for no reason
With the Emrest of us averting our eyesG
[Interlude]
C G F
[Bridge]
EmWhen I was leaning on Skrillex's tour bus waiting for the Chotel shuttle in the middle of the night
I Ambarely knew who I was
I looked Emup and saw Orion wielding a club and a shield
And there you were again:
GMajestic dead wife
As my Amgrief becomes calcified, frozen in stories
And in these songs I keep singing, numbing it down
The Gunsingable real memories of you
And the feral eruptions of sobbing
These Fwaves Emhit less Cfrequently
They Fthin and Emthen they are Cgone
You are Fgone and thenEm your echo Cis gone
And Fthen the Emcrying is Cgone
And what is left but this Cmerchandise?
[Interlude]
F Em C
[Outro]
FThis is what my Emlife feels like FnowEm C
Like I got Fabruptly dropped offEm by the side of the road
In the Cmiddle of a long horrible ride
In a Fhot van that was too Emfull of confident Cchattering dudes F
And Gthe sound of tires Creceding F Em C
Taking Gin the night air I sayF Em
"Now only"C