Big Thief - Vampire Empire

Capo: 1st fret

[Intro]
G C
(x4)

[Verse 1]
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Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed
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The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead
G C/G
I’m not quiet, you’ve been quiet, just receiving what you said
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Reeling feeding feeling filled by everything you fed
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I see you as you see yourself through all the books you read
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Overwhelmed with guilt and realising the disease

[Chorus]
G C/G
You give me chills, I had it with the chills
G C/G
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
G
I am empty ‘til she fills
C/G
Alive until she kills
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In her vampire empire, I’m the fish and she’s my gills
G C/G
Falling, yeah
G C/G
Falling, yeah

[Verse 2]
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I see you there rejecting all your earthly power
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Protecting and dissecting ‘til you empty every hour
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We jump into the pond and then we come under the shower
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You lay upon my pillow and you open like a flower
G
I wanted to see you naked
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I wanted to hear you scream
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I wanted to kiss your skin and your everything
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I wanted to be your woman
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I wanted to be your man
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I wanted to be the one that you could understand

[Chorus]
G C/G
You give me chills, I had it with the chills
G C/G
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
G
I am empty ‘til she fills
C/G
Alive until she kills
G C/G
In her vampire empire, I’m the fish and she’s my gills
G C/G
Falling, yeah
G C/G
Falling, yeah

[Break]
G C/G
(x4)

[Verse 3]
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I walked into your dagger for the last time in a row
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It’s like trying to start a fire with matches in the snow
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You can’t seem to hold me here, you can’t seem to let me go
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So I can’t find surrender, can’t keep control
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You turn me inside out and then you want me outside in
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You spin me all around and then you ask me not to spin
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You say you want to be alone and then you want children
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You wanna be with me baby, you wanna be with him

[Chorus]
G C/G
You give me chills, I had it with the chills
G C/G
I am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills
G
I am empty ‘til she feels
C/G
Alive until she kills
G C/G
In her vampire empire, I’m the fish and she’s my gills
G C/G
Falling, yeah
G C/G
Falling, yeah
G C/G
Falling, yeah
G C/G
Falling, yeah

[Outro]
G C/G
(x8)