Chords for Screaming Arrows: Mastodon x Neurosis' Scott Kelly

I am infatuated and in love with a man named Scott.
[A] _
_ _ [Db] Love Neurosis.
Neurosis is one of my favorite bands.
[A] I figured that they would be intense people, you know.
Listening to Neurosis, watching their live show, the emotion runs deep.
And I think we've always tried to [G] take [F] that into consideration,
like, you know, learning from them, like,
man, look what these guys have done [Am] with music.
_ We connected really [E] quickly and easily on a tour
[Am] back in about 20 years ago with Soybod and Today is the Day and Neurosis.
I remember really clearly [E] sitting on the deck of the ferry with Braun and talking to him.
[F] We were like, me and Bill, should this, you know, I'm [Eb] thinking about starting a new band.
Yeah, I figured, [Am] like, you guys should do that.
[Dm] _ _
[Bbm] _ When Brent, Braun, [Bb] Bill, and myself met,
we shared the same inspiration from the Thin Lizzy, the Iron Maiden,
[F] the Melvin's Neurosis [D] world.
[A] We knew right away that we were all cut out for one [Eb] another
to at least give this band a proper shot.
[Dbm]
When we came up with the name Mastodon,
[D] we called Scott, being the benchmark of [B] cool that he is.
He'd probably hate that.
_ Hey, we got the [Eb] band going, you know, and everything,
and we're thinking about [F] names.
What do you think about the name Mastodon?
[Dbm] I think I like that.
Hold on, let me ask my [A] 13-year-old son. _
He's like, [Gb] Damon, what do you think about the [Bb] name Mastodon?
I was like, that's great.
And I told Braun, I said, well, Damon thinks it's great.
We're like, okay, that's it.
Mastodon it is, see ya.
[G] [Dbm] If Scott likes it and [E] thinks it's cool, then it's cool.
I [Ab] remember during the writing process [F] of what would become [Em] Leviathan,
there was a musical part that someone, I believe Braun might have [D] said,
you know, that sounds kind of like a neurosis part
that I could hear Scott [Eb] Kelly's voice on.
[F] And a matter of days later, it was like,
I wonder if we should ask [C] Scott if he'd be interested in [F] collaborating.
He returned [Am] his vocal tracks for that,
with it kind of rough mixed [E] into the song,
cranked it in the parking [Am] lot,
listened to it like five or six times in a row.
[A] I think it brought me [Bb] to tears.
_ _ We're all [Gm] huge fans of [A] his band and his voice.
He sounds like such a [C] person in pain.
It was a great moment.
It made me really happy.
That's kind [Am] of where it all began.
So, Occo Dementia was the springboard for the Mastodon [E]-Scott Kelly [Bb] connection.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [E] The next record, Blood Mountain,
we had a part that sounded very neurosis [G]-ish.
And I think it kind of just [F] took off from there without truly meaning to.
[Gb] It just seemed like it went so [E] well
in collaborating with the musical hero and a dear friend of ours.
[Eb] A lot of our [E] songwriting usually has to do with some kind of loss
[D] or some kind of painful [Eb] moment in your life,
and [C] he's going to be able to convey that [D] so brutally.
[A] _
[D] There's no, like, spoken thing.
Like, well, Scott has to be on it or else, you know.
But it feels like that a little [F] bit.
We started [E] off with one record, and then there's two, and now it's six.
I'm super honored that they [Bb] always, like, have this place for me in there, you [D] know.
[Bb] How the hell are we going to screen that one?
I don't know.
I've never, like, said, where's my [Gb] song?
You know, I've never, [E] I would never do that.
If the next record comes up and they don't have something for me,
I'm not going to be pissed, you know.
[C] But I will be bummed. _ _
[F] _ _ I think his probably most powerful [D] performance would be on Crack the Sky itself,
the song Crack the Sky.
You know, he knew the subject matter, he knew it was heavy.
We had a certain type of [G] death in common.
It's rare for [G] me to meet somebody [Bb] that has a suicide in their life.
I mean, we talked about it a [Eb] lot, he and I,
so the [Dm] song was carrying a [Eb] lot of weight, was it, you [C] know.
And the lyrics were, you can tell it was some pretty heavy shit.
But I did not [Dm] want to let them down on that one, [D] you know,
really more than any of the other ones, [Am] you know.
He, like, asked for a picture of my [Dbm] sister so he could have it with him in the vocal booth.
So he's a very deep, spiritual [F] kind of person.
We were really, we [E] were really dialed in on [Dbm] that one.
That was heavy, [Am] very much so.
Definitely the heaviest thing [E] I've ever done outside of neurosis
was Crack the Sky with those [A] guys.
_ _ [Bbm] Perhaps one day in a wonderful world we'll be able to play a live show
and he can do all six songs in a row with us.
That would be a [B] dream come true [A] that I could check off the list of things to do in life.
For years now we've been talking about [Bb] the possibility of him coming [A] out and joining us
and doing all the Scott Kelly songs, and now [Gm] we have six of them, so [A] that's like a half hour.
You know, in November [C] we're actually going to go out and [Gb] do like 20 shows [Gbm] together.
We've done [E] one song here or [A] there probably five or six times over the years,
but never like this where we're going to do [F] every single song.
[A] And I'm really looking forward to that.
It'll be great.
[Bb] A lot of times you make good friends [A] on the road with somebody
and there are some people that you just gravitate [Bbm] towards naturally
and [F] so you just maintain those relationships.
[Em] Like, you know, he is [Gb] really that fifth member that just [D] isn't always with us.
Now [A] you're not only inspired by your musical [Gb] heroes, but working with [Fm] them
and realizing [A] that we're all the same.
In this [Bbm] music business of [D] a lot of terribleness, [A] it's good to have some pure souls
like Scott Kelly [G] to be there [A] as a beacon to sort of guide the way.
_ [Bb]
I am [A] really excited to share the stage with Scott,
but also looking forward to just getting some hang [G] time with my friend.
[A] Listening, learning, watching, and [E] befriending the fellows in [Eb] Neurosis has been life-changing,
and that's almost an understatement.
It's really been their vision in so many ways.
I'm just happy to be [Bb] a part of that.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
Yeah we need to listen [B] to more of Scott.
I'm doing like a_
a beef up part of Crystal Skull where it's like this real heavy,
_ [A] part of Scott Kelly's thing over.
Like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da [Gb]-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da [E]-da-da.
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