The Mountain Goats – Abandoned Flesh chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
        D#                     A#Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France
     D#                         A#Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance
         CmSiouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid
       D#                                 B#Every New Year's in Los Angeles you can still see Richard Blade


[Chorus]
         A#   B#                        D#But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel
           A#   B#                       D#Yeah, the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel

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[Verse 2]
      D#They charted once or twice
          A#They were on a major label
          D#When the singer went solo
         G#He left money on the table
        CmThe two main guys are related

They're at war with each other
            D#Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
A#           B#One for each brother


[Bridge]
         G#   B#       CmBut the world came to agree
G#                           B#    What you see is what you get
CmAnd what you get is what you see
                   Cm                      B#Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi
          D#                                CmBands who had to leave the darkness for the sun
     G#                          CmRed Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red I think
             Cm                   B#They've been playing clubs since 1981


[Verse 3]
      D#To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel
      G#Billy Corgan brought them on stage
          D#It was in 2011
                G#It's on their Wikipedia page
             CmBut for the most part

However big that chorused bass may throb
        G#You and me and all of us
                   B#
Are gonna have to find a job


[Chorus]
            A#               B#            D#Because the world will never know or understand
G#    The suffocated splendor
                            B#
Of the once and future goth band


[Outro]
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