The Latter Days

Intro:

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 Dm
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 C
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Dm                                
My family does own some land where
                     Bb
 the river is wide

C                              
At night I see my memories dimly 
                       Bb
dying on the other side

Dm                                
I know that I am now all bitterness 
Bb
and tart

C                             Dm 
Anatomy to me is a homesick 
                       Bb
stomach and a broken heart



Dm                                
You rest-stops in the midnight are
                        Bb
 like friends I've worn to bone

C                                 
I only notice that you're glowing 
                  Bb
when I'm feeling so ever alone

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Dm                                
Drunken with the children now too 
                 Bb
many times to complain

C                                 
Trustful was the mouth I turned 
               Dm
into a lustful sopping hole and

              Bb
Now it's nothing but a bathtub drain



Dm                                
The latter days are harder than I 
           Bb
ever could've known

C                                 
Come back to retrieve me sometime 
                      Dm
soon

Dm                                
If the latter days are ending then
                Bb
 I hope I'm ending too

C                             
And buried someplace where your 
breath tastes new to me and
        Bb


                          Dm
Always blowing, so my body's bent 
and bowing

Bb                                
Deep into the day's ending in 
                        C
summer

Bb                                
The latter days are always panting
      C
 like a second-comer

Dm                          
All the fleshy statues of the 
            Bb
city-square goodbyes

C                                 
Are flinging smooth-skin trinities
 and nakedness up into my eyes
     Bb


Dm                          
Naked swan-necked girls, your 
         Bb
arching backs into the sun

C                              
The highway ditch's black clouds 
                                  Dm
split the median and

Breathing in of all the ribs of 
              Bb
every bathing one



Dm
And in those trash-pit-ponds you 
bathe and

       Bb
Oh, how you all gleam

C
Mindlessly bright where you're wet 
in

Bb
Your eye-lashing, fluid-splashing, 
rapid-flashing

Dm
Canal-bleaching dream
For me