The Black Dog chords

The Black Dog

• C

Suggested chord shapes

   C   C/E F   G   Am
e|-3---X---1---3---0-|
B|-5---5---1---3---1-|
G|-5---5---2---4---2-|
D|-5---5---3---5---2-|
A|-3---7---3---5---0-|
E|-X---X---1---3---X-|

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Verse 1
C                       C/E
 I am someone who until recent events
                 F
 You shared your secrets with
            G                             C
 And your location, you forgot to turn it off
                   C/E                               F
 And so I watch as you walk into some bar called The Black Dog
                         G
 And pierce new holes in my heart
                       Am    C
 You forgot to turn it off
        F          Am         C    F
 And it hits me, I just don't understand


Chorus
               C              G
 How you don't miss me in The Black Dog
      C/E               F
 When someone plays The Starting Line
          C                G
 And you jump up but she's too young
         C/E                F
 To know this song that was intertwined
        C            G      C/E F
 In the magic fabric of our dreaming
 C     G        C/E  F    C
 Old habits die screaming


Verse 2
   C                                   C/E
 I move through the world with a heart broken
                    F                      G                         C
 My longings stay unspoken and I may never open up the way I did for you
                       C/E                             F
 And all of those best laid plans, you said I needed a brave man
                   G                            Am   G
 Then proceeded to play him until I believed it too
        F           Am         G    F
 And it kills me, I just don't understand


Chorus
               C              G
 How you don't miss me in the shower
       C/E           F                    C
 And remember how my rain soaked body was shaking
        G               C/E          F
 Do you hate me? Was it hazing for a cruel fraternity?
 C              G       C/E  F
 I pledged, and I still mean it
 C     G        C/E   F
 Old habits die screaming


Bridge
Am                      F                           C
 Six weeks of breathing clean air, I still miss the smoke
                        G                     Am
 Were you making fun of me with some esoteric joke?
                     F                            C
 Now I wanna sell my house and set fire to all my clothes
            G                              F G
 And hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons
               C G C/E F    C G C/E F
 Even if I die screa--------ming
                C G C/E F  C G C/E F
 And I hope you hear       it


Chorus
                 C             G
 And I hope it's shitty in The Black Dog
      C/E               F
 When someone plays The Starting Line
          C                G
 And you jump up but she's too young
         C/E                F
 To know this song that was intertwined
        C             G      C/E  F
 In the tragic fabric of our dreaming
        C                 G            C/E F
 'Cause tail between your legs, you're lea-ving


Outro
 C       G       C/E   F
 I still can't believe it
        C     G        C/E   F
 'Cause old habits die screaming

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