In A Week

Chords

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F       Em  
I have never known peace,
          C       Bb      F        G   F 
Like the damp grass that yields to me.
Bb      Em     
I have never known hunger,
           C  Bb       F         G          
Like these insects that feast on me.
   Bb        Em        C                           
A thousand teeth and yours among them, i know
Bb    F       Em       
Our hungers appeased
      C     Bb      F      G        
Our heart beats becoming slow
 G         C         D            G       
We'll lay here for years or for hours
  D               G         D           G        
Thrown here or found, To freeze or to thaw
G       C       D           G        
So long, we'd become the flowers
G     D          G          G               
Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw.
G
And they'd find us in a week,
          C           G           
When the weather gets hot.
  C          G           D            G
After the insects have made their claim.
         D              G                  Bb    
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you.
Bb       Em                  
I have never known sleep 
      C            Bb        G     Bb   
Like this slumber that creeps to me.
        Em               
I have never known color
      C      Bb    F      G    Bb 
Like this morning reveals to me.
                 Em         
And you haven't moved an inch, 
C                    G     Bb
Such that I would not know
Bb          Em                    
If you sleep always like this, 
C      Bb      F     G 
Flesh calmly going cold.
G          C         Em           G       
We'll lay here for years or for hours,
       D         G          D          G  
Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet.
     C          D          G 
So long, we'd become the flowers,
       D             G
We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep.
 G                         
And they'd find us in a week,
         C             G   
When the cattle'd show fear.
Am                      G              
After the insects have made their claim,
C          D           G   
After the foxes have known our taste.
         C         G            D         G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you.
G                C             
And they'd find us in a week,
G         C            G
When the weather gets hot.
G                C        D
And they'd find us in a week,
 G         C             G  
When the cattle'd show fear.
  G              D         G 
And they'd find us in a week,

When the buzzards get loud.

After the insects have made their claim.

After the foxes have known our taste.

After the raven has had his say.
         Em        G           D          G                           
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
        D          G           G           
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
        D          G           D          G  
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you

G  C  Am  G  F  G  F