xArtist: Andrew Bird
Song: Cataracts
Album: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum, 2007)
Standard Tuning
Intro: Am F (x2) G
C
When our mouths are filled
F
with uninvited tongues of others
C
And the strays are pining
F
for their unrequited mothers
C G
Milk that sours is promptly spat
Am F
Light will fill our eyes like cats
C F
And they shall enter from the back
C
With spears and scepters and squirming sacks
G
Scribs and tangles between their ears
Am
Faceless scrumbled charcoal smears
F (C)
...oh dear...
Through the coppice and the chaparral
The thickets thick with mold
The bracken and the brier
Am F Am F
Catchweed into the fold
(whistle solo)
C F C F C G Am F
C
When our mouths are filled
F
with uninvited tongues of others
C
And the strays are pining
F
for their unrequited mothers
C G
Milk that sours is promptly spat
Am
Light will fill our eyes like ...cats
F Am
Light will fill our eyes like cats
F Am F Am F G C
Cataracts
