Cataracts chords by Andrew Bird

Song: Cataracts
Album: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum, 2007)
Standard Tuning


Intro: G

C
  When our mouths are filled
     F
with uninvited tongues of others
C
  And the strays are pining
F

for their unrequited mothers
G
  Milk that sours is promptly spat
                      F
Light will fill our eyes like cats

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
      C)
...oh dear...

Through the coppice and the chaparral
The thickets thick with mold
The bracken and the brier
                    F
Catchweed into the fold

(whistle solo)
F

C
  When our mouths are filled
     F
with uninvited tongues of others
C
  And the strays are pining
F
for their unrequited mothers
G
  Milk that sours is promptly spat
                             Am
Light will fill our eyes like ...cats
Am
   Light will fill our eyes like cats
C