Ferris Wheel On Fire Chords & Tabs
Ferris Wheel On Fire Chords
This is the whole album, taken from other tabs on this site,
I corrected some of the lyrics, and chords as well.
I'm sure there are mistakes though, so please correct me.
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OH SISTER
G
Oh sister, don't be afraid of me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
C
Just like the rest of them did
With those watery, wandering fingers of spit
G C G
That were supposed to be glorious and fine
G
Oh sister, won't you believe in me
I only wanted to be hard on the family
C
Here with you now in this zillionth infirmary
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
G C G
All of the time
G
Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
C
there in the parlor all naked in front of me
G C G
Watching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs
Em C
Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything
G D
Thats fleshy free and flowering like oranges out in the open
Em
But don't you waste your sins again
C
She don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
G D
And you, you're American, self important boiling over
Em
To prove that she must still exist
C
she moves herself about her fist
G
and wont ever never give a shit
D
about all those words you're wasting again
Em C G
Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream
D
You'd like to kill and clean
And claim her as your own
Em
But don't you worry
C G D
All those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own
G
Sister, now that you're leaving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
C
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
G C G
Whatever comes next
G
And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
C
That you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
G C G
Under your sheets
G
And oh sister
now that you're greaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
C
forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
G C G
and pretend you were breathing of all of this world
and in an age of empty rings
D C
I don't want to feel the thing
G C G
I don't even want to know
D
Rose Wallace Goldeline
C
don't you ever die on me
G
don't you own the way you go
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FERRIS WHEEL ON FIRE (Thanks to MoonFace)
Both barre chords. Barre F on the first
fret and G on the third. The F-G pattern continues through all verses.
F
Well now first of all
G
We became what we always had feared
F
Every engine holds
G
All their oils on fire appeared
F
They finally broke through
G
And on your shoulder
F
This weight has been placed upon you
G
And everything we ever learned
F
But now I'm keeping still
G
In someone's bright carnival ride
F
All the crowd just cheers
G
As the bolts break and metal collides
F
Spiraling through
G
And flying up over the hills
F
And now everything's broken in two
G
And everything we ever would
F
But now most of all
G
I am holding you under my skin
F
Watch these buildings fall
G
Watch as each weak resistance caves in
F G
All over you, all over
F
And now finally fading from view
G
Is everything we ever knew
Repeat F and G throughout the last part.
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HOME (Thanks to Thewheeman)
E C G x2
E
Hold
C G E
Well you can hold your hands together all you please
C G E
Won't erase those tender tidings you endured
C G E
You were just another family member on their knees
C G D
Just a social work statistic out the door
C G D
They beat against the tender sidings of your soul
C G D
With all those pretty little hammers of control
C G D
And where they are tonight well you will never know
C G E
But I swear that I will find them now
C G E C G
E
More
C G E
Its more than just a simple question of decay
C G E
More than all those fists that beat into your door
C G E
It's more than all the shrinks that told you you’re okay
C G D
It's more than anything that I have waited for
C G D
They beat against the tender sidings of your soul
C G D
With all those pretty little hammers of control
C G D
And if they even can remember I don't know
C G E
But I swear that they'll remember now
C G E C G
E C G x4
E
Home
C G E
It's just another word you'll always push away
C G E
Just a memory you wear outside your clothes
C G E
And it will burn down into cinders and some day
C G D
They will burrow down to their parental holes
C G D
They beat against the tender sidings of your soul
C G D
With all those pretty little hammers of control
C G D
And if they've ever paid a price well I don't know
C G E
But I swear that they will pay one now
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APRIL 8th (Thanks to liamf)
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B|---------------------------------|
G|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|
D|---6---0---4---0---2---2---4---4-|
A|-7-------5-------3-------5-------|
E|---------------------------------|
Just strum E at the end
Lyrics:
Crawl across toward your window
I'm calling softly from the street
Always a lonely widow
Half awake and sleeping on my feet
I'm of age but have no children
No quarter phone booth calls to home
Just late night television
Inside my bedroom all alone
There is no use in waiting
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me stretch upon your carpet
Let me hear the rain tap on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
(Strum E Here)
Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep
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I WILL BURY YOU IN TIME (Thanks to UtBDan)
I'll get around to putting the chords over the lyrics soon,
i'm just trying to get all of them in one place right now.
Chords used:
C Gmaj13 Em G
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B|--1----1----0---0---
G|--0----0----0---0---
D|--2----0----2---0---
A|--3----3----2---2---
E|--x----2----0---3---
C Gmaj13 C Gmaj13
I will bury you in time when the sea begins to
C Gmaj13 Em G
slide into this hole where I am smiling on your shoulder
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C Gmaj13 C Gmaj13
You have buried my beliefs where all your sisters
C Gmaj13 Em G
sleep, but their scent of purity will breath when the youth is over
Em G C Gmaj13
frozen in some lost October
And I am breathing into you
It makes your features move
And they shimmer like balloons that fly above the ocean
All the world is waiting here
You can hear the children cheer
But they'll need you when you're near
The brink of complete implosion
Crown your king when your life is broken
Everything you are I'm tearing through
Everything you want I'm wanting too
I gave you more than I thought I could ever do
But I will never break you down
And if I was the king of all the kids
You'd you hear me singing in my spit
But all you would hear is the shit inside my burnt emotions
I will bury you in time
When the sea begins to slide
Into this hole where you and I will sing our songs unbroken
As the water starts its choking
Dee dee dee dee dee
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ENGINE (Thanks to buh2001j)
G A C x 2
G A C G
For I am an engine and I'm rolling on
A C G
through endless revision to state what I mean
A C G
for sweetness alone who flew out through the window
A C G
and landed back home in a garden of green
A C G
A C G
you're riding alone in the back of a steamer
A C G
and steaming yourself in the warm shower spray
A C G
and water rolls on off the round captains belly
A C G
who's talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray
A C G
A C G
and sweet babies cry for the cool taste of milking
A C G
that milky delight that invited us all
A C G
and if there's a taste in this life more inviting
A C G
than wake up your windows and watch as those sweet babies crawl
A C G A C
awaaay yeah mmm mmm mmm
A C G x2
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A Baby For Pree/Grow Into You (Thanks to HipsterDoucheba)
C Em F Em C
C Em F Em C
C
C Em
Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen
F Em
Makes babies to breathe with their hearts hanging open
C Em F
All over the sheets as soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer
Em F Em
And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing
F Em
They'll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating
C
Until wonderfully wet she will get
Em F
Until she's soaked inside her clothes
E
And there is no sorry to be sorry for
F E
For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft
F E
It made her swallow all her sweat with every bit of breath she coughs
F G
And when the day it came to pour all her babies all across the bathroom floor
C C Em F Em
She will be swimming in them all forevermore
C Em F Em C
Glow right into you, I will glow
Em F Em C
Right into you I will glow
Em F
Right into you
E
And I let you down
F E
Swollen and small is where you find me now
F E
With that silver stripping off and my tongue you're tearing out
F
And you'll never hear me talk
C Em F Em C
Glow right into you, I will glow
Em F Em C
Right into you I will glow
Em F
Right into you
E
And I will be strong, strong enough
F E
To shout above your voice that's blaring hard
F E
And your face that's falling out into the dust of what you are
F G C C Em
Em
And I will never hear you talk
C Em F Em C
Glow right into you, I will glow
Em F Em C
Right into you I will glow
Em F E
Right into you
F E
And with my little finger
F E
I could make it all crumble
F E
I could make it all over
F G
Before you would even know
C
Glow
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My Dream Girl Don't Exist (Thanks to Sister_Ray)
Intro - E B C#m A (x3)
E B C#m A E B C#m
My dream girl don't exist
A E B C#m
At the age of five she slit her wrists
A E B C#m
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
A E B C#m
So her parents buried her in the ground
A E B
And this day I can still hear the sound
C#m A E B C#m
Of her life in outerspace
A E B C#m
My dream girl don't exist
A E B C#m
It's just you and I and this TV
A E B C#m
And this illness seems to feel so strange
A E B C#m
Like a henchman that's about to hang
A E B
The moon up like a ball and chain
C#m A E B C#m A
instead it stands ablaze
E B
And the wait is waiting ah
E A B
Build a world so real and strong
E B C#m
E B C#m A E B C#m
My dream girl don't exist
A E B C#m
Just a photograph and a history book
A E B C#m
And I believe she had a voice and name
A E B C#m
Three children on the coast of Maine
A E B
Her life was in a hurricane
C#m A E B C#m
Of love and real embrace
A E B C#m
My dream girl don't exist
A E B C#m
At the age of five she slit her wrists
A E B C#m
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
A E B C#m
So one day she took a stroll to town
A E B
And walked in front of a Greyhound bound
C#m A E B C#m A
For New York Central staaaaaaaaate
E B
And the wait is waiting ah
E B
And the wait is waiting ah
E A B
Build a world so real and stroonnng
B E
She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid
