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