As A Card Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][C][E]
[D]I'll

[Verse 1]
hold my own
death as a [C]card in the deck
To be [E]played when there are
no other [C]card[E]s left

[Verse 2]
[G]I'll slip into the ocean [B]unnoticed and
[F#]notify [B]no one on the notarized form
And [F#]they're slow on a
hot summer morning
Like that [D]one- [G]legged
locksmith in Colraine

[Verse 3]
But I'll [D]hold my own death
as a [C]card in the deck
To be [E]played when there
are no other cards left

[Verse 4]
As [G]time drags on [C]and I [B]thin and whiten
and my beard grows long
I might look like Walt Whitman
All sunken- [F#]eyed and dry
and without pigment
But I wanna [G]be spry as a newborn kitten

[Verse 5]
And I'll [D]hold my own death
as a [C]card in the deck
To be [E]played when there
are no other [C#m]cards [E]left

[Verse 6]
[G]I wanna open like the bay[C]
does to [D]the [B]ocean
With any cool portion of every emotion
[F#]Or soldier forward and be
hard as a flat [D]board
With the [G]heart of an approaching asteroid
Like go and ride like a cat's toy [F#]in a dryer
[B]Stay true to my matter like
a brick in fire
[F#]Wrapped in my long years like a spool of wire
[C]Unspo[D]iled by [G]the coils
of fame and desires

[Verse 7]
So [D]I'll hold my own death
as a [C]card in the deck
To be [E]played when there
are no other cards left
[D]Hold my own death as [C]a card in the deck

[Outro 1]
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