[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)
Gm F#m Gm F#m
Gm' F#m' Gm' F#m'
Gm' F#m' D
Gm' F#m' D
D (hold)
[Verse 1]
D G D
A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
D G D
A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable
D G
Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad
D7 G
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
A#
Would often devastate the gate and hedge
D
And set our tiny teeth on edge
A#
I see it in me now and pledge
D
To knock it on the head that's what I'll do
D (hold)
[Verse 2]
D G D * * * *
A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
D G D * * * *
Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel
D G
I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me
D7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
G
And God almighty laughing at me
A#
From a fat boy fishing chair
D
I wake to find you laughing there
A#
It's nice to know how much you care
D D D D D
Decided I should spend my life with you
[Chorus]
D D G G A6 A6
We protect our little fictions
D D
Like it's all we are
D D G G A6 A6
Little wilderness mementos
D D
But there's only you and me here
G G A6 A6 D D
Fire breathing
G G A6 A6
Hold tight
D D A6 A6 Bm Bm A6 A6 D D
Waiting for the original miracle
D (hold)* * * * * * * *
[Verse 3]
D G D * * * *
I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please
D G D * * * *
Your paper's upside down The radio's in Chinese
D G
These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals
D7
That friction up the interaction
G
Emanate from quite the greatest
A#
Thing that ever happened to
D
A pair of boozy bowerbirds
A#
Like me and you In other words
D D D D D
The alligator pear inside of you
[Chorus]
D D G G A6 A6
We protect our little fictions
D D
When we bow to fear
D D G G A6 A6
Little wilderness mementos
D D
But there's only you and me here
G G A6 A6 D D
Fire breathing
G G A6 A6
Hold tight
D D A6 A6 Bm Bm A6 A6 D D
Waiting for the original miracle
G G A6 A6 D D
Fire breathing
G G A6 A6
Hold tight
D D A6 A6 Bm Bm A6 A6 D D
Life is the original miracle
A6 A6 Bm Bm A6 A6 D D
(only electric guitar & drums)
[Instrumental]
D G D
D G D
A7sus2 G A D (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 G A D
A Bm A D
[Outro]
D G D
Let's get old
D G D
Dare you now
A7sus2 G A D
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 G
All in
D A Bm A D
Love is the original miracle
D G D
Let's get old
D G D
Dare you now
A7sus2 G A D
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 G
All in
D A Bm A D
Love is the original miracle
A Bm A D
Love is the original miracle
D* * * * * * * *