Malaise (With The Devil)
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesse Welles
Album: With The Devil (2025) Digital Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SQkVaLD-os&list=OLAK5uy_nwG_-K5kcmSilGdsycnfC6GPlN6qTM-98&index=4
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
11/2/2025

Jesse recorded 2 separate albums for this release with one being Acoustic and the other full band,
This tab is from the Electric version. The chords are the same for the acoustic version, though.
You can hear the acoustic album here: Devil's Den (2025) Digital Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z-0nXhDKe0&list=OLAK5uy_mfMY_04ZJerNEVCMOlgpRZpqxdg0Ql3W4

Capo 2

G                       Am
Up in the asylum on the temple of the couch
        C                      G
I was a witness to immaculate TV
       G                     Am
I will pray unto Laverne and Shirley one last time
           C                  G
Before the supernova bleaches me
          D                              C                G
Will they measure Mars in acres, will we finally meet our makers
     Am                     D     D/B
Will Lucifer laugh until he cries
       G                             Am
On the great red plains of Mars underneath the same old stars
           C                            G
A trillion miles run and still I cannot hide


Harmonica break
G  Am  C  G 


With the frontiers all surveyed and the buff'lo put away
I wondered what remains
With every mountain logged thus and every field farmed into dust
I guess we oughta go and put the sky in chains
Things determined are in motion by some preternatural notion
How could it be no one consulted me
Oh, I must-a missed the meeting, the interdimensional committee
Though I must say I'm not insulted in the least
 
Harmonica break
G  Am  C  G

On that billion lightyear frigate, I said toss me over, dig it
I am running from a ruthless jealous God
You don't know what wrath is, Matey's, never lived ye through the 80s
The war was cold but the cocaine hit the spot
When they set the pole in concrete and unfurl man's ragged longing
And the banner of accomplishment is raised
O'er the wasteland red as hell, I will wonder, wonder well
Who in space is left to blame for my malaise

 
Harmonica break
G  Am  C  G