Bonnie Prince Billy Transposer
Black
Will Oldham
Song : B
Intro :
Em
Em D
Black, you are my enemy
Bm Em
And I cannot get close to thee
D
Our life is ruled by enmity
Bm Em
And I can't weaken that
D
The only way that I can see
Bm Em
Is to hold you close to me
D
To love you for it's meant to be
Bm Em
I weaken your attack
Em D
Everything was lucked and downy
Bm Em
What was good was up from under
D
Until black, that awful tender
Bm Em
Came and popped my sense of wonder
D
All at once all eyes turned at him
Bm Em
Leaving me an unwatched body
D
And it sagged, my body's rib cage
Bm Em
Out from under ogler's study
Em D
Black was decomposing quickly
Bm Em
This was found offensive to me
Em D
His disrespect for life's proprieties
Bm Em
Made me scared he would destroy me
Em D
Black, you are my enemy
Bm Em
And I cannot get close to thee
D
Our life is ruled by enmity
Bm Em
And I can't weaken that
D
The only way that I can see
Bm Em
Is to hold you close to me
D
To love you for it's meant to be
Bm Em
I weaken your attack
Em D
So I thought I'd try to cut him
Bm Em
Try to force him 'neath my level
D
The only way to equal to him
Bm Em
Would be hit him with a shovel
D
But to really rise above him
Bm Em
That would be the final evil
D
So instead I asked the sucker
Bm Em
If he'd care to see my rooms
D
And as a friend and as a comrade
Bm Em
And all the things that these implied
D
I made him leave what it was that he had
Bm Em
Used to keep us unallied
Em D
Black, you are my enemy
Bm Em
And I cannot get close to thee
D
Our life is ruled by enmity
Bm Em
And I can't weaken that
D
The only way that I can see
Bm Em
Is to hold you close to me
D
To love you for it's meant to be
Bm Em
I weaken your attack
Em D
Now black and I we are together
Bm Em
Fairly just inseparable
D
And in the terriblest of weather
Bm Em
Our bonds are incorruptible
Em D
Black, you are my enemy
Bm Em
And I cannot get close to thee
D
Our life is ruled by enmity
Bm Em
And I can't weaken that
D
The only way that I can see
Bm Em
Is to hold you close to me
D
To love you for it's meant to be
Bm Em
I weaken your attack
Bonnie Prince Billy Transposer