QUICK TABS W/ LYRICS for ARTHROMUSIPOLOGY by The Heads And Necks all music and lyrics by Patrick Keller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (01) THE PATIENCE OF A SPIDER VERSE: Bb F# F# G# A# CHORUS: Eb G# B Bb BREAK: Bb G Gm F Bb Cm F Bb When I used to come home late, I'd look for the spider by my door and though I knew he wasn't waiting for me I'd say hello to him every night The patience . . . of a spider . . . There is no time until his next meal. And my old girlfriend . . . I thought she was the kind of girl who'd stay I thought we were build-ing a life together but I was just another line spun into her resume she had the patience . . . of a spider . . . but he was just waiting around until her next meal break: I don't want another spider, no I'm done, but she was what I must become to survive I've got to learn to lay a trap now I've got to learn to build and keep an eye out for angry birds because I might get killed plucked like a seed pop from a map I can't tell the truth to flies but building takes more than using small white lies to keep it all together I didn't think she had a plan but it was just too large for me understand just how our life were made and I've got some questions for her but I guess it's too late And now I'm left here, my girlfriend and my spider went away and now I've got to learn to set a table or else I'll never get another dinner guest to stay I want the patience . . . of a spider so there'll be no time until my next meal I want the patience . . . of a spider I want time to pass and not have to feel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (02) HERE COME MY DYING FRIENDS VERSE: G Em D C C Em D CHORUS: C Cm G x 2 D C BREAK: G Here come my dying friends Now I'm dying to know where she kept the net Or could it be that I really didn't notice or did something else I saw make me instantly forget? chorus: I wanted to ask them just how long they would stay but I found out the next morning They arrived in the night and had left by the day light, their bodies on the floor They left me around here to clean up the mess that's not what I call _ ideal guests . . . Here come my dying friends . . . seem like dying's all the rage Or could it be that they're just not good at living? But why do they come to me just to die all in a wave? (chorus) . . . why they had came But they wouldn't say. (breakdown) Here come my dying friends their bodies just won't answer questions no matter how hard I try It's sad and funny that they look meant for the water but if they touch of a drop it their bodies start to slowly die (chorus) . . . just where they had come from but they wouldn't say ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (03) YOU LACK THE FITNESS VERSE: G E C D G x2 CHORUS: Am D G Em Am D G BREAK: C D Em x3 C D G You were dealt a bad hand but I don't think I'll cry cause I was pretty busy before you came to my life When they were giving out brains where the hell were you? Probably behind the bleachers doing that dance that you do . . . (chorus:) You might as well dance cause you lack the fitness! to survive throw up your hands fall down on the floor What's the name of that move? the one that you can't seem to stop you take a short hop, then you flop like a fish on the dock You could call it the shake, the shiver, the quiver, or the headless bob . . . I call it shakin' the death rattle you call it doing the dance macabre (chorus) (break:) I've got a dance of my own I call it the dead at sea you look around and force a smile and try to act like you're exactly where you wanna be / and you pretend like there's no higher place because there are no foot holds you can see / and I've said a lot but enough about me (chorus:) Cause we might as well dance, you and I cause we lack the fitness to survive and I think we're running out of places to hide! We might as well dance, in a line cause we're just lemmings on a great incline and I am the largest so I've got the furtherest to fall! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (04) ZERO AND ONE VERSE: G# . . . B C# G# x2 CHORUS: G# B F# Bb B B F# C# F F# BREAK: A# G# F# F# G# A# Was I born . . . just to line the bin? if my friends are poker chips, then I guess I'm all in . . . . . . where should I begin? I've never made a plan cause I've always played it loose and I'd gladly be a dinner just so I could be of use . . . . . . I can be so obtuse (chorus:) What I wanna know is why I was ever born if there wasn't a place set for me in the food chain my brain complains, "Was I meant just for this?" Now I'm thinking back to zero and I have to wonder . . . Will I ever be the one? It was me who asked her but she had to set the date She would always walk one step ahead while I was running late . . . . . . . I thought that was great G# She talked to me about it, but I cannot say I tried . . . I never focused on the stops, I just enjoyed the ride . . . . . somewhere, she set her heart aside (chorus) (breakdown) Now I'm feeling lonely but I know I'm not the worst if I'm drawn to melodrama it's because it seems rehersed . . . . . . . can my downfall be reversed? I'd like to give it all up but who'd care for the rest? And I cannot go to pieces beCause who'd clean up the mess? . . . . . . consciousness is such a pest (chorus, repeat until fade out) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (05) JEWELED EYES --slow part-- VERSE: B F C#m F# x2 BRIDGE: C#m F# B (A) E E F# B CHORUS: B C#m F# C#m F# B FAKE CHORUS: B G# C#m F# C#m E F# B --fast part-- VERSE: B Ebm (Ebm Dm) C#m E F# x2 FAUX-BRIDGE: C#m F# B (A) E E F# B C#m F# B OUTROW: B I raised my fingers, tried to block the light, it wasn't morning but moving van in the middle of the night I got a glass of water because my throat was dry and I thought about some words of hers that I thought made a lie (bridge:) I remembered what she said on her last time getting out of my bed she said . . . Someday you can't help but love again (chorus:) And I know that she'll be back but she'll come in a disguise A different looking spider but she'll look at me . . . through the same set of eight jewled eyes I closed the curtains and went back to my bed then I had contest with my clock, tried to stare its hands a head But I couldn't scare it, it said "4:21" and I closed my eye lids tightly but the next day wouldn't come (bridge) (chorus) and I know my that my friends will come back but I can't care for the rest cause how can you look at the ground when you've got someone to weave a hexagon in your chest? (speed up) In my mind I'll start a city and we can build it up together, you and I Let's give up this dream of spiders because I want a fellow architect, and not a fly I'm feeling hopeful but perhaps I'll have another relapse and I can't stop it, so why try? She was right when she said I was meant to share a bed just not with her But don't feel too bad! Cause I'll get another one soon that's damn for sure! (outrow:) 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'.