Key: F#m
Introduction: F#m F#m C#9 F#m
F#m C#9 F#m
I watch the work of my kin bold and boyful
F#m C#9 F#m
Toying somewhere between love and abuse
E A
Calling to join them the wretched and joyful
F#m C#9 F#m
Shaking the wings of their terrible youths
F#m C#9 F#m
Freshly disowned in some frozen devotion
F#m C#9 F#m
No more alone or myself could I be
E A
Lurched like a stray to the arms that were open
F#m C#9 F#m
No shortage of sordid, no protest from me
F#m A
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
F#m A
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
F#m C#9 F#m
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh, I
F#m C#9 F#m
Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet
E A
Fresh from the fields, all fetor and fertile
F#m C#9 F#m
It' s bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet
F#m A
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
F#m A
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
A F#m E D C#9
(INSTRUMENTAL OF "VERSE")
F#m C#9 F#m
Leashless confusion, I' ll wander the concrete
F#m C#9 F#m
Wonder if better now having survived
E A
Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat
F#m C#9 F#m
The sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I' m alive
F#m A
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene
F#m A
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
E F#m
She' s the angel of small death and the codeine scene