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Play mostly palm muted, emphasizing the low strings

C/B: x20010
C-run: -3-2-0- on the A string

G C-run G

G           C             G       C-run G
Insane in a studio in Los Angeles
G              C          D7
Rudderless and hungry and high
 Em                 G
Ideas of no earthly consequence
Am              Em
Float across my consciousness
            G   D   C     
And then go dark as bullseyes

Am                  Em
Go down the devil's way
Am                     C   C-run half speed
Go down a twenty devil way

G C-run G

Twenty years on they'll be asking what I remember
Go where the dry dust crawlers tread
The fire in the vocal booth
The doctor who filed down my teeth
Dreams from the ether overhead

Go down the devil's way
Am                     C
Go down a twenty devil way

D                            Em
Lit candles pressed into the walls down there
C             G       F#             G
Three cans of Aqua Net in my greying hair

G C-run G

Arsenic drifting down through the hourglass
Track-lit hallways that go on for days
Floating like a Portuguese man o' war
Pretty hardcore
Fire offerings, burnt offerings, thanks and praise

Go down the devil's way
Go down the devil's way
Am                     C    C/B
Go down a twenty devil way

G C-run G x3
G C C/B G