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Cataracts

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Aminor

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Standard Tuning
Intro:  Am   F(x2) G  
  CWhen our mouths are filled 
with Funinvited tongues of others
  CAnd the strays are pining 
Ffor their unrequited mothers
  CMilk that sours is promptly Gspat
Light will fill our eyAmes like catsF  
  CAnd they shall enter from the backF  
With spears and scepters and squirming Csacks
Scribs and tangles between their Gears
Faceless scrumbled charcoal sAmmears
              F(C)
...oh dear...
Through the coppice and the chaparral
The thickets thick with mold
The bracken and the brier
Catchweed into the fAmoldF  Am  F  
(whistle solo)
C F C F C G Am F
  CWhen our mouths are filled 
with Funinvited tongues of others
  CAnd the strays are pining 
Ffor their unrequited mothers
  CMilk that sours is promptly Gspat
Light will fill our eyes like Am...cats
   FLight will fill our eyes Amlike cats
   FCataAmractsF  Am  F  G  C  

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Cataracts

by Andrew Bird

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

Standard Tuning

Am F G

Intro: (x2)

When our mouths are filled

with uninvited tongues of others

And the strays are pining

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

With spears and scepters and squirming sacks

Scribs and tangles between their ears

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

When our mouths are filled

with uninvited tongues of others

And the strays are pining

for their unrequited mothers

C G

Milk that sours is promptly spat

Light will fill our eyes like ...cats

F Am

Light will fill our eyes like cats

F Am F Am F G C

Cataracts

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