Pleasure is the Absence of Pain - Wrinkle Neck Mules
Track 7 - Let the Lead Fly (2009)
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Standard tuning; capo 2nd fret
Strumming pattern in verse 3 is different as indicated by chord placement.
[Intro]
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D|--4-2-0-----0-2-4-----4-2-0---|------------------------------|
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[Verse 1]
A D A
Feel the flex of the string, hear the doorbell ring
A E A
See the letter he brings that told it was gone
A D A
As the oldest of trees to fall in ’03
A E A
When Isabel’s breeze tore our roots from the ground
[Chorus]
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain
A E E7
Pleasure is the absence of pain
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain, good Lord
A E A
Pleasure is the absence of pain
[Verse 2]
A D A
Touch the first bitter chord, know the last sad word
A E A
Hate the sound that you heard about the old tired tree
A D A
Who lays in the dark with his corpse on his heart
A E A
That was scraped in the bark to remain to remind us that
[Chorus]
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain
A E E7
Pleasure is the absence of pain
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain, good Lord
A E A
Pleasure is the absence of pain
[Verse 3]
A A D A
Hold the last soft note, clear the burrs from your throat
A A E A
Love the pain that you wrote for the old tired tree
A A D A
Who was strong as he stood, heart, belly and blood
A A E A
Turned love into wood and wood into pain
[Chorus]
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain
A E E7
Pleasure is the absence of pain
D A
Pleasure is the absence of pain, good Lord
A E A A
Pleasure is the absence of pain