Rat A Tat

Chords

Low-G Tuning

at a tat tat
Rat a tat tat tat hey

Cm
No thesis existed for burning cities down at such a rampant rate
Eb
(Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat hey)
No graphics and no fucking Powerpoint presentation
Cm
So they just DIY'd that shit and they built their own bombs
Eb
(Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat hey)
She's his suicide blond, she's number than gold

Bb
Are you ready for another bad poem?
Cm
One more off key anthem
Bb
Let your teeth sink in
Ab               F       Fm   Cm
Remember me as I was not as I am
Cm                           Bb              
And I said "I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead,"
Ab                                                F     Fm       Cm
I kept wishing she had blonde ambition and she'd let it go to my head

Ab
Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey
Cm
If my love is a weapon There's no second guessing when I say
Bb
Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey
Cm
If my heart is a grenade You pull the pin and say:

Eb
We're all fighting growing old
Bb
We're all fighting growing old
       Cm Ab
In the   hopes
      Cm         Ab
Of a few minutes more
Eb                    Bb
To get on St. Peter's list
                            Cm        Ab
But you need to lower your standards
           Cm    Ab
Cause it's never
Getting any better than this

Cm
We are professional ashes of roses This kerosene's live
Eb
(Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat hey)
You settled your score This is where you come to beg
Cm
unborn and unshaven Killing fields of fire 
Eb
(Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat hey)
to a congress of ravens This is what we do, baby, we nightmare you

Bb                               Cm
I'm about to make the sweat roll backwards
                         Bb
And your heart beat in reverse
                      Ab
Our guts can't be reworked As alone as a little white church
                                    Fm
In the middle of the desert getting burned
         Cm
But I'll take your heart served up two ways
Bb
I sing a bitter song
Ab
I'm the lonelier version of you I just don't know where it went wrong

Ab
Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey
Cm
If my love is a weapon There's no second guessing when I say
Bb
Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey
Cm
If my heart is a grenade You pull the pin and say:

Eb
We're all fighting growing old
Bb
We're all fighting growing old
       Cm Ab
In the   hopes
      Cm         Ab
Of a few minutes more
Eb                    Bb
To get get on St. Peter's list
                            Cm        Ab
But you need to lower your standards
           Cm    Ab
Cause it's never     Getting any better than this

Cm
Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey It's never
Ab                      Cm
Getting any better than this
[x4] [Last time F in place of Ab and go to Eb not Cm]

Eb
She's sick and she's wrong She's young dirty blonde
Bb
And you sink inside her like a suicide bomb
        Cm
He says "I've seen bigger" She says "I've lit better"
          Ab
And they throw the matches down into the glitter
Eb
Not a dry eye left in the house
Bb
Go boy, go boy, run for your life
Cm
Go boy, go boy, run for your life
Ab
Go boy, go boy, run for your life

N.C. (beat)
We're all fighting growing old We're all fighting growing old
      Cm  Ab
In the    hopes
      Cm          Ab
Of a few minutes more
  Eb                      Bb
To get get on St. Peter's list
                            Cm       Ab
But you need to lower your standards
            Cm   Ab
Cause it's never    Getting any better than this

Cm
Rat a tat tat
Ab
Rat a tat tat tat hey
Bb
It's never
Eb
Getting any better than this
[x4] [Last time switch Bb and Eb)

Bb                             Cm
Are you ready for another bad poem?