[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)
G#m Gm G#m Gm
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
D#7 G#
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
Cb
Would often devastate the gate and hedge
D#
And set our tiny teeth on edge
Cb
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
D#7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
G#
And God almighty laughing at me
Cb
From a fat boy fishing chair
D#
I wake to find you laughing there
Cb
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# A#6 A#6
We protect our little fictions
D# D#
Like it's all we are
D# D# G# G# A#6 A#6
Little wilderness mementos
D# D#
But there's only you and me here
G# G# A#6 A#6 D# D#
Fire breathing
G# G# A#6 A#6
Hold tight
D# D# A#6 A#6 Cm Cm A#6 A#6 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
D#7
That friction up the interaction
G#
Emanate from quite the greatest
Cb
Thing that ever happened to
D#
A# pair of boozy bowerbirds
Cb
Like me and you In other words
D# D# D# D# D#
The alligator pear inside of you
[Chorus]
D# D# G# G# A#6 A#6
We protect our little fictions
D# D#
When we bow to fear
D# D# G# G# A#6 A#6
Little wilderness mementos
D# D#
But there's only you and me here
G# G# A#6 A#6 D# D#
Fire breathing
G# G# A#6 A#6
Hold tight
D# D# A#6 A#6 Cm Cm A#6 A#6 D# D#
Waiting for the original miracle
G# G# A#6 A#6 D# D#
Fire breathing
G# G# A#6 A#6
Hold tight
D# D# A#6 A#6 Cm Cm A#6 A#6 D# D#
Life is the original miracle
A#6 A#6 Cm Cm A#6 A#6 D# D#
(only electric guitar & drums)
[Instrumental]
D# G# D#
D# G# D#
A7sus2 G# A# D# (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 G# A# D#
A# Cm 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# Cm 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# Cm A# D#
Love is the original miracle
A# Cm A# D#
Love is the original miracle
D* * * * * * * *