Poison In The Well ukulele

Poison In The Well

• C#m

Lagwagon
Poison In The Well
Hang
2014 Fat Wreck Chords
Submitted by: [email protected]

Key: E, F#

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
C#m - x46654
B -   x24442
A -   x02220
E -   022100
F# -  244322
F#m - 244222
G#m - 466444
G# -  466544
Ebm - x68876
C# -  x46664
Bb -  x13331


Verse 1:
C#m            A
   young vacant heartbreaker
C#m                 F#m
   do you feel like breaking
         C#m
something   cause you seem
   B   A             G#
so cold trying to be bold
C#m             A
   blank prelude to extinction
C#m               F#m
   your words are misspelled
       C#m
treason   poison in your
B    A              G#
trust poison in our hope


Chorus 1:
A
do you recall your
B
first bee sting
C#m
   how you learned
   E
to feel pain
A
  are you numb
  E
below your
      G#      G#(hold)
nerve endings?


Verse 2:
C#m
   trouser kneecap
A           C#m
  broken hat   dressed
      F#m
up in broken English
C#m              B
   poison in the quill
A                G#
  poison in your quill


Chorus 2:
  A
a founder of a scene
   B
an uninformed machine
C#m             E
   love or hate everything
A                 E
  somehow you see apathy
G#
as soul a fool's
youth is no excuse
         G#(hold)
to be an asshole


Interlude: Beat Changes and Guitar Solo
C#m-A-E--C#m-A-E--C#m-A-E--C#m-- x4


Bridge:
E
  it's speaking English
      F#
but I don't understand
   C#m
it dancing on graves in
G#               A
their ancestors' gold
           E
sucking on air
         Bb(hold)
dispel malignant-


Verse 3: Modulate Key from E to F#
   Ebm      B
-revolt rats what
         Ebm
can I do?   my daughter
G#m              Ebm
has to live here too
              C#
poison in the well
B               Bb
  poison in the well
Ebm
   I picture life in
    B
the outside lands
Ebm               G#m
   somewhere far away
         Ebm
from them   hanging
         C#
from the grid
B 
  hanging from
    Bb
the grid


Chorus 3:
B
will she recall her
C#
first bee sting?
Ebm              F#
   how will she speak
     B
of me growing up
   F#           Bb
surrounded by imbeciles?

a fool's youth is no
  Bb(hold)
excuse to be an asshole


Outro: Ebm-B-Ebm-G#m-C#-Bb- x3

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