Last Man On Earth chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Intro: G Bm Am7 C   X2


G       Bm          C          G
 Just when the last of the smoke subsides you'll see my fingers
G      Bm    Am7        D
 Hoisting my body up atop the charred debris
G      Bm        Em         Bm
 Who is that creature with the crazed look in his eyes?
C      G
 Don't even question your senses
C           D
You can be sure that's me
       Em         G
When all the pretenders to your hand
  C        D
lie dead across the land,

      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
     G   D       G
Crawling around, down on the ground

G       Bm        C         G
 When the Hail Marys you've been saying lose their savor
G        Bm         Am7         D
 Just when your dungeon walls feel like they're closing in
G        Bm       Em        Bm
 Whose are those bloody knuckles reaching down to grab you
C      G           C        D
 Just as the last of the light overhead is growing dim?
    Em             G
It was their love you wanted, not mine
        C         D
But when they deny your name three times

      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
     G   D       G
Crawling around, down on the ground

Em      D          G
 And I will throw you across my shoulders
Em      D        G
 And I will bleed and I will drool
Em    D        C       G
 And the cameras will slow pan across my face
Em     F          D
 And I will try to say something cool

G      Bm          C       G
 Just as the hoardes of thirsting demons close around us
G       Bm         Am7      D
 Raising their axes, howling like monkeys in the sun
G       Bm       Em      Bm
 Who will that guy be holding you so high above them?
C       G        C         D
 You know and I know, everyone knows it, I'm the one
      Em         G
I may have failed you once before
     C           D
But this right here, this means war

      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
      G  Bm   C    D
I'll be the last man on earth
     G   D       G