Body Memory
Ebm
First snow of winter
Ebm
I’m walking hills and valleys
Ebm
Adore this mystical fog
Ebm
This fucking mist
Ebm
These cliffs are just showing off
Ebm
Gb
Then the body memory kicks in
Ebm
Gb
I mime my home mountains
Ebm
Gb
The moss that I’m made of
Ebm
Gb
I redeem myself
Ebm
Bbm
Db
Ebm
I’ve been wrest ling my fate
Ebm
B
Db
Ebm
Do I ac cept this ending?
B
Db
Gb
Will I a ccept my death
Ebm
Bbm
Ebm
Or struggle claustrophobic?
Ebm
B
Db
Ebm
Fought like a wolverine
B
Db
Bbm7
Ebm7
With my destiny
B
Db
Bbm7
Ebm7
B
Db
Refuse to accept what was m eant to be
Ebm7
Cdim
Then the body memory kicks in
Ebm7
Cdim
And I trust the unknown
Ebm7
Cdim
Unfathomable imagination
Gbmaj7
Ebm7
Surrend er to future
Ebm7
Ab7
Ebm7
Oh how to capture all this love
Ebm7
Ab7
Ebm7
And find a pathway for it
Ebm7
Ab7
Ebm7
Like threading an ocean through a needle
Ebm7
Ab7
Ebm7
River through a keyhole
Ebm7
Ab7
Ebm7
Can’t fathom the grasp
Ebm7
Ab
Ebm
I can’t grasp the fathom
Ebm7
Gb
Ebm7
Then my body memory kicks in
Ebm7
Gb
Ebm7
My limbs and tongue take over
Ebm7
Gb
Ebm7
Like the ances tors before me
Ebm
Gb
Show me the flow
Ebm
Ab
Db
Ebm
My sexual D N A
Ebm
Ab
Db
Ebm
X-rays of my Kam a S utras
Db
Ab
Ebm
Summons different bodies
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
Compares spines and buttocks
Ab
And back of necks
Ebm7
Then my body memory kicks in
Ebm
It simply takes over
Ebm7
Bestiality
Ebm
I redeem my body
Ebm
Ebm7
Ebm
Bbm
B
Ebm
Ebdim
Abm
Bbm
Db
Ebm
Fdim
Bb
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
I wasn’t born urban
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
Toxic doesn’t agree with me
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
Love lured me here into a stagnant state
Ebm
Ab
Ebm
My myths, my customs, ridiculed
Ebm
B
Ab
Ebm
Vacuum packed molecules
Ebm7
Then my body memory kicks in
Ebm7
On this Brooklyn dance floor
Ebm7
Sweating with these rhythms
Ebm7
Cdim
Absus2
Rotate this matrix
Eb5
All trapped in legal harness
Eb5
Kafkaesque
Eb5
Farce like patriarchy
Eb5
Avoided to confront it
Ebm
Then the body memory kicks in
Ebm
My warrior awakens
Ebm
My turn to defend
Ebm
Urban didn’t tame me
Ebsus4
Then my body memory kicks in
Ebsus4
All bosoms and embraces
Ebsus4
Oral, anal entrances
Ebsus4
Enjoy the satisfaction
Ebsus4
If the other is growing
Bbm7
Gbmaj7
B
Ebm
Eb5
Gb
Absus2
Ab
Ab7
Cdim
Ebdim
Ebm7
Bbm
Abm
Ebsus4
Db
Bb
Fdim