Bonnie Prince Billy
Black

Song :
F#
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 
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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