[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)
F#m Fm F#m Fm
Gm' F#m' Gm' F#m'
Gm' F#m' C#
Gm' F#m' C#
C# (hold)
[Verse 1]
C# F# C#
G# muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
C# F# C#
G# baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable
C# F#
Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad
C#7 F#
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
A
Would often devastate the gate and hedge
C#
And set our tiny teeth on edge
A
I see it in me now and pledge
C#
To knock it on the head that's what I'll do
C# (hold)
[Verse 2]
C# F# C# * * * *
G# muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
C# F# C# * * * *
Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel
C# F#
I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me
C#7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
F#
And God almighty laughing at me
A
From a fat boy fishing chair
C#
I wake to find you laughing there
A
It's nice to know how much you care
C# C# C# C# C#
Decided I should spend my life with you
[Chorus]
C# C# F# F# G#6 G#6
We protect our little fictions
C# C#
Like it's all we are
C# C# F# F# G#6 G#6
Little wilderness mementos
C# C#
But there's only you and me here
F# F# G#6 G#6 C# C#
Fire breathing
F# F# G#6 G#6
Hold tight
C# C# G#6 G#6 A#m A#m G#6 G#6 C# C#
Waiting for the original miracle
C# (hold)* * * * * * * *
[Verse 3]
C# F# C# * * * *
I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please
C# F# C# * * * *
Your paper's upside down The radio's in Chinese
C# F#
These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals
C#7
That friction up the interaction
F#
Emanate from quite the greatest
A
Thing that ever happened to
C#
G# pair of boozy bowerbirds
A
Like me and you In other words
C# C# C# C# C#
The alligator pear inside of you
[Chorus]
C# C# F# F# G#6 G#6
We protect our little fictions
C# C#
When we bow to fear
C# C# F# F# G#6 G#6
Little wilderness mementos
C# C#
But there's only you and me here
F# F# G#6 G#6 C# C#
Fire breathing
F# F# G#6 G#6
Hold tight
C# C# G#6 G#6 A#m A#m G#6 G#6 C# C#
Waiting for the original miracle
F# F# G#6 G#6 C# C#
Fire breathing
F# F# G#6 G#6
Hold tight
C# C# G#6 G#6 A#m A#m G#6 G#6 C# C#
Life is the original miracle
G#6 G#6 A#m A#m G#6 G#6 C# C#
(only electric guitar & drums)
[Instrumental]
C# F# C#
C# F# C#
A7sus2 F# G# C# (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 F# G# C#
G# A#m G# C#
[Outro]
C# F# C#
Let's get old
C# F# C#
Dare you now
A7sus2 F# G# C#
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 F#
All in
C# G# A#m G# C#
Love is the original miracle
C# F# C#
Let's get old
C# F# C#
Dare you now
A7sus2 F# G# C#
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 F#
All in
C# G# A#m G# C#
Love is the original miracle
G# A#m G# C#
Love is the original miracle
D* * * * * * * *