Cataracts chords by Andrew Bird

Chords with lyrics

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


Intro: G+G

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

FF
 And they shall enter from the back
                    C majorC
With spears and scepters and squirming sacks
                 G+G
Scribs and tangles between their ears
               A minorAm
Faceless scrumbled charcoal smears
   C majorC)
...oh dear...

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

(whistle solo)
FF

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