{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2510205,"song":"August 6Th","artist":"mewithoutYou","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11510265-august-6th-chords-by-mewithoutyou/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2510205?type=chord","rating":4.48274,"votes":4,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAug. 6th, carved in desks with old knives:[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\n“Back when our common cause was alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were in bloom[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nChildren watched as the soldiers marched by[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAll the birds fell like frogs from the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nProstrate in the streets every crescent moon[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLonesome offspring of which still resound[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith the victimless sins of their authors passed down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd the remnants of loathsome, disjointed worlds[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAlong the short path round the lily pad pond[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith off-white deerskin wedding dress on[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nGerman songs, homemade bonnets like old-order, amish girls jilted by squirrels[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn the parks of Sioux Falls haunted by church bells[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLike ghosts of applause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls like[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNew Mexico, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion dolls making up myths about wounds without cause...”[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd sometimes when it’s quiet my heart feels like Guernica[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[scenes from old air raid] on screens in blue dusk[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPerfumed neighborhoods/graveyards the breath feels like flies in my lungs, voice like ambulance[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSirens whose light floods the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\n(“praying mantis spreads arms” said the lines of whose palm?)[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSkyline shifting like clouds became “airplane descends”[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n[fade to scenes on the ground] human foreheads all smashed[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nForeign cars upside down, insect mouths open wide[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI stared down a huge insect, bright red-glowing eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n[does it feel wrong to say a thought “metastasized”?], legs on both highway sides[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n[ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n(Said insect was mechanized!)\r\n\r\n[ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n[ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n(Said insect was mechanized!)","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\nF#m  A  G\n\n(Said insect was mechanized!)\n\nF#m  A  G  Em\nF#m  A  G\n\n(Said insect was mechanized!)","chords":["Bm","D","A","F#m","G","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}