[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)
Em D#m Em D#m
Gm' F#m' Gm' F#m'
Gm' F#m' B
Gm' F#m' B
B (hold)
[Verse 1]
B E B
F# muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
B E B
F# baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable
B E
Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad
B7 E
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
G
Would often devastate the gate and hedge
B
And set our tiny teeth on edge
G
I see it in me now and pledge
B
To knock it on the head that's what I'll do
B (hold)
[Verse 2]
B E B * * * *
F# muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
B E B * * * *
Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel
B E
I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me
B7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
E
And God almighty laughing at me
G
From a fat boy fishing chair
B
I wake to find you laughing there
G
It's nice to know how much you care
B B B B B
Decided I should spend my life with you
[Chorus]
B B E E F#6 F#6
We protect our little fictions
B B
Like it's all we are
B B E E F#6 F#6
Little wilderness mementos
B B
But there's only you and me here
E E F#6 F#6 B B
Fire breathing
E E F#6 F#6
Hold tight
B B F#6 F#6 G#m G#m F#6 F#6 B B
Waiting for the original miracle
B (hold)* * * * * * * *
[Verse 3]
B E B * * * *
I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please
B E B * * * *
Your paper's upside down The radio's in Chinese
B E
These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals
B7
That friction up the interaction
E
Emanate from quite the greatest
G
Thing that ever happened to
B
F# pair of boozy bowerbirds
G
Like me and you In other words
B B B B B
The alligator pear inside of you
[Chorus]
B B E E F#6 F#6
We protect our little fictions
B B
When we bow to fear
B B E E F#6 F#6
Little wilderness mementos
B B
But there's only you and me here
E E F#6 F#6 B B
Fire breathing
E E F#6 F#6
Hold tight
B B F#6 F#6 G#m G#m F#6 F#6 B B
Waiting for the original miracle
E E F#6 F#6 B B
Fire breathing
E E F#6 F#6
Hold tight
B B F#6 F#6 G#m G#m F#6 F#6 B B
Life is the original miracle
F#6 F#6 G#m G#m F#6 F#6 B B
(only electric guitar & drums)
[Instrumental]
B E B
B E B
A7sus2 E F# B (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 E F# B
F# G#m F# B
[Outro]
B E B
Let's get old
B E B
Dare you now
A7sus2 E F# B
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 E
All in
B F# G#m F# B
Love is the original miracle
B E B
Let's get old
B E B
Dare you now
A7sus2 E F# B
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 E
All in
B F# G#m F# B
Love is the original miracle
F# G#m F# B
Love is the original miracle
D* * * * * * * *