Crabapples In The Century's Storm Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Em]You say that you've forgotten
But I [C]know that you're rotten in [D]your
[Bm]sweet [Em]litt[Bm]le way
[C]

[Verse 2]
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[Em]Like the crabapples
Themselves like [C]ornaments
[D]Fermented in the suspense
Of their [Em]sweet [Bm]decay[C]

[Verse 3]
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Drinking Shell station [Em]wine beneath the
[C]Sylvan Lake willow
[D]My prophesied Rebecca on
my [C]bike trail and [D]pillow
[Em]I still see your cheeks so red in
[C]Pontiac summer
[D]The pulverized sidewalk and
the ra[C]cing and the stupor
Or in [Em]danger, and the kids using
a [C]milk jug for a basket[D]ball
I'd risk it all to ask it all,
to [C]bask the fall again in splendor

[Verse 4]
Tra[D]cing [C]your [D]rot[Bm]ten spine
[Em]

[Verse 5]
Oh, but [C]when you hair
was still long
[D]Everything a new song and
[C]the heater and the theater
[Em]Soiled tights and the nights
Where we [C]touched in standing darkness
The [D]odor was magnetic and
we [C]wore it like a harness
[Em]My memory

[Verse 6]
is freezing in your
dead [C]night winter attic
[D]Evacuated all except for [C]the electric static
Of our bod[Em]ies sparking on
[C]the carpet and the mattress
[G]Som[C]eth[D]ing made a tar pit out
of [C]what was once a fortress
[Em]Who

[Verse 7]
can really [Asus4]say?
[Em]Maybe I took[C] that for granted
[D]But somehow my lips never left
Where [C]the back of your neck slanted

[Verse 8]
[D]Oh, my little wastrel
My [Em]sweet lost friend
My [D]piss is in the tendrils
Of your [A]rented house ivy
That en[C]snares the end
Suspended there

[Verse 9]
Like [Em]the crabapples
Themselves [C]like ornaments
That's [D]what you said one morning
Looking out the back [C]window
of my parents'

[Verse 10]
Weren't [C]some [Em]mornings so fine?

[Verse 11]
[Em]
There [C]inside that book I gave you
[D]Maybe there's a line you wrote to re
[C]mind you or to save [Em]you

[Verse 12]
Pretty "bois" sell shitty ploys
But [C]mark down all they're
[D]telling
Catchphrases that vaporize
With[C]in ironic spelling

[Verse 13]
But now [Em]the crabapples are in
[C]the century's storm
[D]The World Series is over
And the [C]world's collapsing in its form

[Verse 14]
[Em]I think of all those young names that
day [C]on the stones we read
Then cold [D]Arizona Iced Tea when the
[C]cemetery scorched us red

[Verse 15]
[C][Em]
[D]Now I a[Em]m blind to your
weekends
The snorting kind of your new [C]friends
[D]But there's a lot where Washtenaw ends
[C]that you might re[Em]call
[G]I

[Verse 16]
[Em]know the way your body bends
In the parked van where still impend[D]s
The smoking frozen moment and
[C]The cata[Em]clysm of [D]it all

[Verse 17]
And I [Em]know your girlhood diary pens
I read it back to you with tenderness
Inside that [D]summer bed
[Em]Across your mother's [C]hall[Em][G][D]

[Verse 18]
[Em]Did I die inside the cleanse
Of [C]blinding- sun Lake Huron lens
Where [D]we were perfect?—that depends
It's [C]all just sand and squall
[D]Do you

[Verse 19]
[Em]still hum when night descends?
I [C]thought it was your calmness then
[D]But it's your motor panicking
With the [C]animals trapped in your wall

[Verse 20]
[C][D]
All the [Em]boys that you fucked over
Eventually got out of Ann Arbor
[D]Honey, how come you're still [Em]stuck behind
[C]The[G] counter?

[Verse 21]
[D]The[Em] streets we used to take
The [C]cracking of the lake
[D]I'll never get that final point you were [Bm]barely [D]even
[Bm]trying [Em]to make[D]

[Outro 1]
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