Tuning: E A D G B E

Album: Paralytic Stalks (2012) Artist: of Montreal Tabbed by: pixiesrule73 Tab type: Chords 1. "Gelid Ascent" 2. "Spiteful Intervention" 3. "Dour Percentage" 4. "We Will Commit Wolf Murder" 5. "Malefic Dowery" 6. "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" 7. "Wintered Debts" 8. "Exorcismic Breeding Knife" 9. "Authentic Pyrrhic Remission" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Gelid Ascent" Gm7 Gm You are what parasites evolved from Still an unanswered question You are the refused energy from a superior form

^AbNothing that occurs to you is intended for your involvement ^GmYou're an irrelevant effect Unavoidable, but of low influence One last thing that you must understand To be dead is to be confused, to be mistaken

^GmYou speak to me Like the anguish of a ^Bb/Fchild doused in flames Oh, you ^Ebspeak to me Like the ^Abstones bashing your skull and brain exposes It's always ^Gmbeen the same 200,000 ^Bb/Fyears of viciousness The violent ^Ebheart dissolves A ^Ebmsimple, weak, cracked-out species

^GmYou speak to me Like your life was ^Bb/Fannihilated in space You ^Ebspeak to me In a ^Abvoice that ?

^GmWhat do you know? You know nothing of the ^Bb/F? of everything The straight ^Ebrighteousness of abandonment The ^Ebmdehumanized regress of love You ^Gmspeak to me

Gm Bb/F Eb Ab Gm Bb/F Eb Ebm Gm Bb/F Eb Ab Gm Bb/F Eb Ebm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. "Spiteful Intervention" Eb Gm Fm Abm

It's ^Ebfucking sad That we need a ^Ebmtragedy to occur To ^Db7gain a fresh perspective in our ^Gblives ^EbNothing happens for a reason ^EbmThere's no point even pretending ^Db7You know the sad truth as well as ^GbI

^EbOh god, the morning light ^EbmSun rays bring my paranoia ^Db7I can't function unless I'm the ^Gbonly one ^Ebawake

Eb B Db Gb

^EbRancour of our ^Bmaj7Last conversation that ^Db7Fucking word you ^Gbmaj7deform to ^EbHandicap me then ^Bmaj7Abuse your advantage (Db) Eb I'm nervous my soul is returning to crystals Because your ^Bmaj7eyes are an ^Db7agent of ^Gbmaj7darkness ^EbThis is not meant to fight ^BIt's just a bitter fait accompli

(piano bass notes) Ab Ab A Bb Db Db

^F#I spend my waking hours ^Bhaunting my own life ^C#7I made the one I ^C#7/Flove start ^F#crying to^F7night And it felt ^Bgood C#7 F# (D#m C#) Still there must be a more elegant solution

^F#Lately I'm rotted in the ^Bfilth of Self-offered ^C#7agonies that ^C#7/Freally should ^F#Fill me with ^F7shame ^BBut all I have is this manic energy

Ab Db Ab/C Bbm Gb

^FmI lost my page in being The black-stamp disciple in your heart collage

^EbThis is wrong to celebrate we ^Bmaj7Need to suffer more ^Db7Face our purility band (n.c) Eb Comforts officiate Devise new ^Bmaj7stratagems to Db bass Disembowel our quotidian characters

^F#I spend my waking hours ^Bhaunting my own life ^C#7I made the one I ^C#7/Flove start ^F#crying to^F7night And it felt ^Bgood C#7 F# (D#m C#) Still there must be a more elegant solution

^F#I know I'm upside down about ^Byou Your ^C#7kindness feels like ^C#7/Fblasphemy or som^F#e sick educ^F7ation On the ^Blimits of humanity ^AbSo I profane the ^Dblaws of some victorian garbage ^Ab/CAnd listen to you ^Db7smashing up my studio again

^F#I spend my waking hours ^Bhaunting my own life ^C#7I made the one I ^C#7/Flove start ^F#crying to^F7night And it felt ^Bgood C#7 F# (D#m C#) Still there must be a more elegant solution

^F#Lately all I can pro^Bduce is psychotic ^C#7vitriol That ^C#7/Freally should ^F#fill me with ^F7guilt But all I ^Bhave is asthmatic energy

Ab Db Ab/C Bbm (last note Eb) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. "Dour Percentage" Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7

^CWe've woken up alone ^EmNo song to sing us off the edge ^Fmaj7The speakers are blown ^Dm7This planet is an ^Forphanage ^CDeep abandonment is^E7sues at our core ^Dm7But if not each other, there's fuck all ^GTo really keep hustling for.

^CAin't got no ride ^EmLeast not one that returns our message ^Fmaj7Our parents aside ^Dm7This planet is an ^Forphanage ^CAnd it ^Em/Bcheapens ^Amus The way ^Fmaj7you and I ^Gtorment each other ^DmIt's just the way we ^Gsus4combine ^G ^Gsus4 ^G

^Cm7Time for you to decide here on the concrete You a winter soldier Or just ^Abmaj7playing yourself and me ^Fm7too ^Cm7I got your letter and it ^Ebm7hurt me so many ways ^Absus4Had no breath to ^Abrespond ^Fm7Boy, you let your brothers ^Cm7down You inhabit your ^Bbown personal ^Ebghetto But ^Abno one's forcing you to^Eb stay there Our circle's ^Abnot so canniba^Glistic, baby

^CAin't got no ride ^EmLeast not one that returns our message ^Fmaj7Our parents aside ^Dm7This planet is an ^Forphanage ^CAnd it ^Em/Bcheapens ^Amus The way ^Fmaj7you and I ^Gtorture each other ^DmIt's just the way we ^Gsus4collide ^G ^Gsus4 ^G

^Cm7It's time to make up your mind Here in the cellar Are you going to betray yourself Or come ^Abmaj7join us up on the ^Fm7dais ^Cm7The conspiracy that's forever ^Ebm7unfolding in your head It's just ^Absus4not rea^Abl ^Fm7Boy you let your people ^Cm7down I murdered ^Bbso much of my^Ebself here ^AbJust to try and ^Ebaccommodate you You ^Abknow I saved your ^Glife A little too hey brother

Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 G7

^Fm7I don't resent you but^Dbmaj7 I can't settle the debt Of our ^Bbmserrated history And blows I ^Ebhaven't got over yet

^CAnd it ^Em/Bcheapens ^Amus ^Fmaj7The way you and I ^Gtorment each other ^Gsus4 ^G

C Em Fmaj7 Dm F C Em Fmaj7 Dm F C Em/B Am Fmaj7 G Gsus4 G C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. "We Will Commit Wolf Murder" Ebmaj7

Something's ^Fterrorized my psyche to get even Lately ^Amyou're the only human I believe in I tried to ^Dmunderstand his logic But there's just no pattern there No ^Csympathetic voices anywhere There's ^Bbblood in my hair

Now ^FI'm considered ugly from every angle ^AmYou're the only beauty I don't want to strangle Can't you hear me ^Dmcrying out for guidance? Yes, we hear but we don't care No sympat^Chetic victims anywhere There's ^Bbblood in my hair

^DmI want to get all fucked up and tell you how I really feel ^FBecause your fibre blackness cocoa arcury is so unreal ^BbWhen I die I want you to die, too Not try to ^Cstay in this all In a ^Fdimension without you, spit on this planet without ^Cyou I ^Bbenvy you because you can believe in things like I never could And like, ^Dmdose yourself into a coma over the ^Fbestiality of our ^Crace ^BbAll I into some ancient reptilian form like an agnostic ^Dmtransubstantiation Don't know what that is (use your imagination)

They paralyze my psyche to get even Lately you're the only dancer I believe in I would put your blood in my hair No sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair Anti-human armies spring from every angle You're the only soldier I don't want to strangle I can see this intolerance ? fate So don't expect us to cooperate Anyway, it's five blocks too late And there's blood in my hair

^DmThere is our most obliging harbor ^DmFor this illusion movies ^DmI wish eyes be stung by ^DmTears of confusion ^Bbmaj7Will you meet the common end To your ^Csus4odd-shaped ^Cmission? ^FNo it isn't true I don't believe in that kind of ^Cplot But still I ^Bbpray for you

(chords are vague here)

^BbWe will produce verity/vanity holocausts ^DmWe will commit ^Cacts of misery ^BbWe will weaponize silence in a sense ^FAnd we will forget

Someone's terrorized my psyche to get even Lately you're the only human I believe in I suffer from this death, to find a kingdom razed Cherub corpses in the vapor Martyrs wrapped in butcher paper In the fall of monster ancestral angle You're the only dancer I don't want to strangle Can't you hear me crying out for guidance? Yes, we hear but we don't care No sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair F Am Dm C Bb F Am Dm C Bb e|----| b|-11-| g|-7--| d|-8--| a|-7--| e|----| Bb/E Gm I saw you laughing but tomorrow you'll say you were there You looked at me in disgust Girl, why should I care? There's blood in my hair There's blood in my hair There's blood in my hair Blood in my hair Fuck (voices singing) Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb Bbadd2 Bb e|----------------| b|-6---------6----| g|-7---------7----| d|-10--------8----| a|-8---------8----| e|-6---------6----| (guitar) D C#dim7 Bm Cm G Cm Ebm D C#dim7 Bm7 Cm G Cm Ebm e|-10--------------------8---10--7----8----11---| b|-10---11-------10--8---8-------8----8----11---| g|-11---9--------7-------8-------7----8----11---| d|------11-------9-------10------9----10---13---| a|----------------------------------------------| e|----------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. "Malefic Dowery" G

^GLove is not a debtor's prison You don't ^D7have to serve a sentence To ^Ampay back what you've been given ^G ^CMm-hm ^Gmm

^GNow I live in fear of your schizophrenic genius It's a ^D7tempestuous despot That ^AmI can't seem to propitiate ^G ^CMm-hm ^Gmm

Now I ^Eb7feel you're provoking me with your fi^Gdelity That your ^Eb7loyalty and affections Are somehow a ^Gvulpine act of hos^D7tility ^Fm7Now we're a bore, we're afternoon TV This thing our ^Cminds are screaming to defy ^Fm7How can I bury this rebellion While proving that I'm ^Cstill your rock 'n' roll ^Gally?

(Dm) (n.c.) Once more I turn to my crutch for counsel

And it ^Cwon't disa^Fmaj7ppoint me ^G ^DmI know it's the ^B7shadow cast by what's looming And not the ^Cmaj7thing in it^Fmaj7self ^Gthat en^Eb7genders fear ^G Eb7 D7

^Fm7I was dreaming of the hunt You clapped your hands ^Csharply twice to wake me up Oh, ^Fm7darkness was gripping the sky I knew I could still ^Cbe your rock 'n' roll ^Gally

fade on G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" C Am7 Am6 Am6 Am7 Am7 Am6 C Am7 Am6 Am6 Am6 Am7 Am6

^CThe sacrifice must be for ^Gm/BbSome long dead deity, babe I ^AmJust can't get hard for ^Freality At ^Dmleast not mine ^CYour love charity is like ^Gm/BbAn immortal bleeding beast and ^Amhere As if to ^Emmotivate my heart to ^Amfunction ^B5This ^Cage is a ^Dmbitch that ^Emburns our ^Dmdreams so ^C? Can only ^Amturn away I wonder ^Gcan I produce enough heat To keep our experimental ^Emhigh I ^Ebmaj7told you I could I couldn't cope Seeing the disappointment ^Amin your ^Bmeyes ^G#m ^F#

Emaj7 Eb7 Bm Bdim/F C#dim/G Bm Dm/A Bdim/F C#dim/G e|-------------| b|-------------| g|--7------9---| d|--9------11--| a|--8------10--| e|-------------|

^C(bass) F G F Am C

(guitar chords for next two minutes) Am D (bass notes)

^AOh Nina, how can I ^F#defend myself against this ^Eworld That batters me like a^D retarding cartoon ^AIt's too soon for salvation but that ^Dword is just a joke A C D E

Oh Nina, my whole system is chaos I'm desperate for something but there's no human word for it I should be happy but What I feel is corrupted, broken, impotent and insane Oh Nina, I have become so hateful How am I ever going to survive this winter? I can think of nothing but getting my revenge Make those fuckers pray, not going to happen And it's eating a hole in me Eating a hole in me It's eating a hole Eating a hole Eating a hole in me (solo same chords as above) (then hold on Am) (n.c.) It'll happen see each suffering repeat Our self concession too foul to mention G#m B/F# C#m G#m B/F# D#m C#m I've inherited spiritual sanctions For some old ancestral crime It was committed long ago But the punishment's absolved all down the family line Everyone's so unstable on my mother's side And emotionally barren on my father's side

But tell me ^F#7how can I attempt to a^Btone For somebody else's ^Ewilful ignorance? ^B Ooo^Ehh

F# F# F# F# B F# F# F# F# B (etc. with variations in bass notes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. "Wintered Debts"

^DmCan't survive another ^Gcomedown day When my ^Dmspirit houses so much ^Fmaj7pain C F Faddb5/C C Em Am G So much bitterness, so much bitterness

^DmI need to teach myself to ^Gfeel again Somehow I ^Dmlost the thread of being ^Fmaj7human C F Faddb5 C Em Am G F Wrapped up in this bitterness, too much bitterness

^AmI'm so confused, what is the ^Gaugfunction of this ego sickness? ^CUselessly believe in my^F7self hatred whisperings I can't ^Emdeal with mourning at the carcass of my ^Amfailures any longer Em Am

^Ebm7b5 Slipping on my own vomit While I ^Dmtried to call you from a ^Gbathroom in Sao Paulo, But I was ^Dmtoo drunk to formulate any sort of ^Fmaj7earthly language, so much ^Cbitter^Fness Faddb5 C Em Am G Too much bitterness

Other people can say there is a true belief system But all my life I've been betrayed by my mother's religion So much bitterness, too much bitterness I'm so destroyed what is the purpose of this ego sickness? Uselessly deceived myself by virgin whisperings And I can't deal with mourning at the carcass of my failures any longer Any longer Em Am Em Am Can't seem to get the saddle on the Spoils of this morbid fugue My mantras of subhuman nature, just a veil for all elation The ink's dripping all over me The only regret I have is caring Are we posing? Are we props Riding the anger 'till it stops?

e|-^Dm6-5--| b|--6--| g|--4--| d|-(5)-| a|--5--| e|-----|

Father, will we starve today? Father will we starve? Father, will we starve today? Father will we starve? No my child, there are wild women in here and a crafty fish am I No my child, there are wild women in here and a fleshy catch am I Will our quarters be the sunken earth deep beneath the meadow? Will our quarters be the sunken earth deep beneath the ground? No my child, you lay your head upon an ousted (?) felon No my child, you rest your head upon a gross misdeed Father, will a ??? of curse enough to find me Father will a ??? a fictim who abuse No my child ??? distunction ??? is a symbol of delight Am (for ages) (Dm6) Am

^Amaj7It's hard to sympathize with ^F#m6those that won't fight for themselves ^Amaj7I can't hold both our faces ^B7off the flames much longer The ^Gbchild of our ^Fmstruggle is ^Dbfree I've ^Gbfallen out of ^Fmlove with the ^E6prisoner ^D6/A ^AThat's to save us ^Dmaj7 ^Bm A(maj7)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. "Exorcismic Breeding Knife" (whole song is chromatic orchestral passages) There's flash of dead eyed in these horse faced hours of ours Don't let this be how I'll be remembered The truest humanity seems to be in dialogue Torn to paper shredded cowboy menace True love never hated The two donkey childs that will be remembered for our hearing Is there a therapist? Is there a psychosis? Is there a comedy outside? How can you perform, how can you operate? Is there a solution then? Why is there an apocalyse? There's no such thing How can you operate, how can you perform, how can you exploit? How can you operate, how can you operate, how can you perform? How can you operate, how can you perform? How can you operate, how can you perform? How... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. "Authentic Pyrrhic Remission" F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G(note) G#m F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G(note) G#

^F#So much violence ^C#/G#in my head, how are ^G#mwe ^C#still ^D#malive? ^BThe depression is under control ^G(No it's not^G#m, don't you ever stop lying, damn)

F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G G#m F# C#/G# G#m C# D#m B G G#m

^F#I love how we're ^G#mlearning from ^A#each other^D#m You are such a ^G#mpositive ^A#You're so empowering ^F#In your hands ^G#mI'm quite simply^C# a different ^D#minstrument And you're the ^G#monly one that ever put ^Bmoney on me ^A#You think that I'd forget so easily

^G#mYou emit a ^F#/A#charged autumnal ^Bvibe I ^Eknow we're of ^F#the same tribe The ^Efall's our most productive season

G#m F#/A# B E

^CStill a crippling ^Ffear has become ^DCaesar and we're ^Bmslightly ^C#moribund ^F#so, naturally I want to ^C#/G#help you invoke^G#m the ^C#architect ^D#mof salutary memes ^BOur heads are pregnant with divine me^Gchanics but, ^G#moh, how we're tyrannized By ^F#tentacles of t^C#/G#heir ferine stu^G#mpidi^C#ty and it's ^D#mall so disa^G#mppointing (But you're different)

^F#I love how we're ^G#mlearning, ^A#learning from eac^D#mh other ^G#m ^A#You're so empowering ^F#In your hands ^G#mI'm quite simply^C# a different ^D#minstrument And you're the ^G#monly one that ever put ^Bmoney on me ^A#Tried to advance trans-human singularity

^F#I love how we're ^G#mlearning, ^A#learning from eac^D#mh other ^G#m (n.c.)

F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A# F# G#m A# D#m G#m A# F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A# F# G#m C# D#m G#m B A#

^D#mEvery time I listen to my heart I just get hurt D#m (for ages)

(orchestral passages) C# F#m6 C# F#m6

^C#Until this afternoon I was a ^F#m6nomad No ^C#country would call me its ^F#m6son I'd ^C#be a refugee but I have no ^F#m6substance ^C#Asking for papers, I have ^F#m6none

C# F#m6

^C#Until this afternoon I was a pa^F#m6riah A ^C#mongrel chased and kicked and ^F#m6hit ^C#Hunted even in my ^F#m6dreaming ^C#Though there was no crime I did ^F#m6commit

C# F#m6 C# F#m6

^C#Until this afternoon I was an ^F#m6exile ^C#But now that word is obso^F#m6lete There ^C#are no nations, no concept o^F#m6f ego ^C#Our illumination is com^F#m6plete

C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 C# F#m6 (fade) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers.

Of Montreal - Paralytic stalks