ARTHROMUSIPOLOGY by The Heads And Necks all music and lyrics by Patrick Keller. THE PATIENCE OF A SPIDER Bb F# When I used to come home late, F# G# A# I'd look for the spider by my door A# F# and though I knew he wasn't waiting for me F# G# A# I'd say hello to him every night Eb The patience . . . of a spider . . . G# B Bb There is no time until his next meal. Bb F# And my old girlfriend . . . F# G# A# I thought she was the kind of girl who'd stay A# F# I thought we were build-ing a life together F# G# but I was just another line A# spun into her resume Eb she had the patience . . . of a spider . . . G# B Bb but he was just waiting around until her next meal break: Bb I don't want another spider, no I'm done, G but she was what I must become Gm to survive F Bb I've got to learn to lay a trap Bb now I've got to learn to build G and keep an eye out for angry birds Gm because I might get killed F Bb plucked like a seed pop from a map Bb I can't tell the truth to flies G but building takes more than Gm using small white lies F Bb to keep it all together Bb I didn't think she had a plan G Gm but it was just too large for me understand F Bb just how our life were made Cm F and I've got some questions for her Bb but I guess it's too late Bb F# And now I'm left here, F# G# A# my girlfriend and my spider went away A# and now I've got to F# learn to set a table F# or else I'll never G# A# get another dinner guest to stay Eb I want the patience . . . of a spider G# B Bb so there'll be no time until my next meal Eb I want the patience . . . of a spider G# B Bb I want time to pass and not have to feel HERE COME MY DYING FRIENDS G Em Here come D C my dying friends C Em D Now I'm dying to know where she kept the net G Em Or could it be D C that I really didn't notice C Em or did something else I saw D make me instantly forget? chorus: C I wanted to ask them Cm just how long they would stay G but I found out the next morning C They arrived in the night Cm and had left by the day G light, their bodies on the floor D They left me around here to clean up the mess C that's not what I call _ ideal guests . . . G Em Here come D C my dying friends C . . . seem like Em D dying's all the rage G Em Or could it be D C that they're just not good at living? C Em But why do they come to me D just to die all in a wave? chorus . . . why they had came But they wouldn't say. breakdown G G Em Here come D C my dying friends C their bodies just won't Em D answer questions no matter how hard I try G Em It's sad and funny D C that they look meant for the water C Em but if they touch of a drop it D their bodies start to slowly die chorus . . . just where they had come from but they wouldn't say YOU LACK THE FITNESS G You were dealt a bad hand E but I don't think I'll cry C cause I was pretty busy D G before you came to my life G When they were giving out brains E where the hell were you? C Probably behind the bleachers D G doing that dance that you do . . . chorus: Am D You might as well dance G cause you lack the fitness! Em to survive Am D throw up your hands fall down G on the floor G What's the name of that move? E the one that you can't seem to stop C D you take a short hop, then you flop like a G fish on the dock G You could call it the shake, the shiver, E the quiver, or the headless bob . . . C I call it shakin' the death rattle D G you call it doing the dance macabre chorus break: C D I've got a dance of my own Em I call it the dead at sea C D you look around and force a smile Em and try to act like you're exactly where you wanna C D be / and you pretend like there's no higher place Em because there are no foot holds you can C D see / and I've said a lot G but enough about me chorus: Am D Cause we might as well dance, you and I G Em cause we lack the fitness to survive Am D and I think we're running out of G places to hide! Am D We might as well dance, in a line G Em cause we're just lemmings on a great incline Am and I am the largest D G so I've got the furtherest to fall! ZERO AND ONE G# Was I born . . . G# just to line the bin? G# if my friends are poker chips, G# then I guess I'm all in B C# G# . . . . . . where should I begin? G# I've never made a plan G# cause I've always played it loose G# and I'd gladly be a dinner G# just so I could be of use B C# G# . . . . . . I can be so obtuse chorus: G# What I wanna know is why I was ever born B if there wasn't a place F# set for me in the food chain my brain complains, Bb B "Was I meant just for this?" B F# Now I'm thinking back to zero C# and I have to wonder . . . F F# Will I ever be the one? G# It was me who asked her G# but she had to set the date G# She would always walk one step ahead G# while I was running late B C# G# . . . . . . . I thought that was great G# She talked to me about it, G# but I cannot say I tried . . . G# I never focused on the stops, G# I just enjoyed the ride B C# G# . . . . . somewhere, she set her heart aside chorus breakdown A# G# F# F# G# A# G# Now I'm feeling lonely G# but I know I'm not the worst G# if I'm drawn to melodrama G# it's because it seems rehersed B C# G# . . . . . . . can my downfall be reversed? G# I'd like to give it all up G# but who'd care for the rest? G# And I cannot go to pieces G# beCause who'd clean up the mess? B C# G# . . . . . . consciousness is such a pest chorus, repeat until fade out JEWELED EYES B I raised my fingers, F# tried to block the light, it wasn't C#m morning but moving van F# in the middle of the night B I got a glass of water F# because my throat was dry C#m and I thought about some words of hers F# that I thought made a lie bridge: C#m F# I remembered what she said B (A) E on her last time getting out of my bed E she said . . . Someday F# B you can't help but love again chorus: B And I know that she'll be back C#m but she'll come in a disguise F# A different looking spider C#m but she'll look at me . . . F# through the same set of B eight jewled eyes B I closed the curtains F# and went back to my bed C#m then I had contest with my clock, F# tried to stare its hands a head B But I couldn't scare it, F# it said "4:21" C#m and I closed my eye lids tightly F# but the next day wouldn't come bridge chorus B and I know my that my friends will come back G# but I can't care for the rest C#m F# cause how can you look at the ground C#m when you've got someone E F# B to weave a hexagon in your chest? (speed up) B Ebm In my mind I'll start a city Dm C#m E F# and we can build it up together, you and I B Ebm Let's give up this dream of spiders Dm C#m E F# because I want a fellow architect, and not a fly C#m F# I'm feeling hopeful but perhaps B (A) E I'll have another relapse E F# B and I can't stop it, so why try? C#m F# She was right when she said B (A) E I was meant to share a bed E F# Ebm C#m just not with her But don't feel too bad! C#m F# Cause I'll get another one soon B that's damn for sure! outrow: strum B Let's go dancin' you and I . . . I got my hands on the present's wasp-thin waist, but the future's caught my eye, let's go dancin'.