Rainer Maria - The Contents Of Lincolns Pockets

      Rainer Maria
The Content's Of Lincoln's Pockets
A Better Version Of Me
2001 Polyvinyl Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: B

Tuning: Standard eADGBe

Chords used:
B -    x24442
F# -   244322
G#m -  466444
E -    022100
C#m -  x46654
B/Eb - x698xx


Verse 1: Kyle
B
  two pairs of
 B/Eb E
spectacles a
B
lens polisher
  E      B/Eb
a pocket knife
  B
a watch fob a
      E      B/Eb
linen handkerchief
  B
a brown leather
          E
wallet containing
B/Eb
five dollars 


Refrain 1:

Caithlin
G#m   F#
Make amends
G#m
Let's make
 F#    F#
amends Make
 E     F#
amends We'll
      E
make amends


Kyle:
confederate
money


Verse 2: Kyle
B
  that there is
E    B/Eb      B
walt whitman's pen
              E
it sat in his hand 
    B/Eb      B
and drank ink and
               E
whitman lay upstairs
    B/Eb
and watched the
B
trains fascinated
E      B/Eb
by the big engines


Refrain 2:

Caithlin
G#m   F#
Make amends
G#m
Let's make
 F#    F#
amends Make
 E     F#
amends We'll
      E
make amends


Kyle:
me i'm
just anxious 


Verse 3: Kyle
B
  lincoln struck
       E
at the back of
    B/Eb    B
the head as if by
         E      B/Eb
a velvet curtain
B
  his body lists
    E 
and folds creased
B/Eb   B
at the hip and 
             e
rolls to the floor
  B/Eb
beside his seat


Refrain 3:

Caithlin
G#m   F#
Make amends
G#m
Let's make
 F#    F#
amends Make
 E     F#
amends We'll
      E
make amends


Kyle:
the light's
gone out now


Chorus 1: Both Kyle and Caithlin
B
  these relics rise
F#/Bb
     like steam and
    G#m
each   disseminates
  F#      B
encircling like
a halo down
F#/Bb
     trajectory
G#m
   of a common
         F#
crowd of simmering


Chorus 2: Caithlin
 B
slammed to the back
        F#/Bb
of your head you've
                 G#m
never been hit before
            F#
how can you deal with
                  B
that kind of information?
                F#/Bb
slammed to your chest
like a curtain hits
    G#m
the floor how can you
F#
deal with that kind
        C#m B  C#m B C#m B C#m B C#m B
of information?


(Repeat Verse 1)
(Repeat Refrain 1)
(Repeat Verse 2)
(Repeat Refrain 2)
(Repeat Chorus 1)


Chorus 3: Caithlin
 B
slammed to the back
        F#/Bb
of your head you've
                 G#m
never been hit before
            F#
how can you deal with
                  B
that kind of information?
                F#/Bb
slammed to your chest
like a curtain hits
    G#m
the floor how can you
F#
deal with that kind
        C#m B  C#m B C#m B C#m B C#m B
of information?

C#m B C#m B C#m B


Outro:
B--F#/Bb--G#m--E-F#- x3, B(hold)