[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)
D#m Dm D#m Dm
Gm' F#m' Gm' F#m'
Gm' F#m' A#
Gm' F#m' A#
A# (hold)
[Verse 1]
A# D# A#
F muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
A# D# A#
F baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable
A# D#
Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad
A#7 D#
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
Gb
Would often devastate the gate and hedge
A#
And set our tiny teeth on edge
Gb
I see it in me now and pledge
A#
To knock it on the head that's what I'll do
A# (hold)
[Verse 2]
A# D# A# * * * *
F muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
A# D# A# * * * *
Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel
A# D#
I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me
A#7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
D#
And God almighty laughing at me
Gb
From a fat boy fishing chair
A#
I wake to find you laughing there
Gb
It's nice to know how much you care
A# A# A# A# A#
Decided I should spend my life with you
[Chorus]
A# A# D# D# F6 F6
We protect our little fictions
A# A#
Like it's all we are
A# A# D# D# F6 F6
Little wilderness mementos
A# A#
But there's only you and me here
D# D# F6 F6 A# A#
Fire breathing
D# D# F6 F6
Hold tight
A# A# F6 F6 Gm Gm F6 F6 A# A#
Waiting for the original miracle
A# (hold)* * * * * * * *
[Verse 3]
A# D# A# * * * *
I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please
A# D# A# * * * *
Your paper's upside down The radio's in Chinese
A# D#
These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals
A#7
That friction up the interaction
D#
Emanate from quite the greatest
Gb
Thing that ever happened to
A#
F pair of boozy bowerbirds
Gb
Like me and you In other words
A# A# A# A# A#
The alligator pear inside of you
[Chorus]
A# A# D# D# F6 F6
We protect our little fictions
A# A#
When we bow to fear
A# A# D# D# F6 F6
Little wilderness mementos
A# A#
But there's only you and me here
D# D# F6 F6 A# A#
Fire breathing
D# D# F6 F6
Hold tight
A# A# F6 F6 Gm Gm F6 F6 A# A#
Waiting for the original miracle
D# D# F6 F6 A# A#
Fire breathing
D# D# F6 F6
Hold tight
A# A# F6 F6 Gm Gm F6 F6 A# A#
Life is the original miracle
F6 F6 Gm Gm F6 F6 A# A#
(only electric guitar & drums)
[Instrumental]
A# D# A#
A# D# A#
A7sus2 D# F A# (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 D# F A#
F Gm F A#
[Outro]
A# D# A#
Let's get old
A# D# A#
Dare you now
A7sus2 D# F A#
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 D#
All in
A# F Gm F A#
Love is the original miracle
A# D# A#
Let's get old
A# D# A#
Dare you now
A7sus2 D# F A#
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 D#
All in
A# F Gm F A#
Love is the original miracle
F Gm F A#
Love is the original miracle
D* * * * * * * *