How To Explain chords by The Cat Empire

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How To Explain
Cat Empire

Tabbed by Damsk1849

I'm pretty sure a lot of this is right.
 I'm least certain about the end of the chorus
"music is the language of us all" bit, so if
anyone that knows better would like to email me
that'd be cool: [email protected]
(I don't consider to be a jazzman of any sort,
I made that address when I was 12)

Chords:
C:  8 10 10 9 8 8
Bb: 6 8 8 7 6 6
A7: 5 7 5 6 5 5
Gm: 3 5 5 3 3 3
F:  1 3 3 2 1 1
Dm: x 5 7 7 6 5
F7: 1 3 1 2 1 1
Dm*: x x 0 2 3 1
C*: x 3 2 0 1 0

(Trumpet Intro)

C majorC Bb majorBb A7A7

A7A7
When a room becomes an altar

And what beast that must exist
       Bb majorBb
It flies with music from our lips
       G minorGm
And steals a kiss and blows it
Bb majorBb      A7A7
Out into the mist
(A7A7)
Where castles stand on cliffs

And cobbled streets they wind and drift
       Bb majorBb
And moods are made and set but shift
         G minorGm
This place where skies are low
Bb majorBb      A7A7
And birds are big

(A7A7)
We went to sleep in day

And woke again the same day
    Bb majorBb
We have learned to cheat the time
       G minorGm
And find the hours
     Bb majorBb      A7A7
That the clocks cannot define
(A7A7)
As I looked up from that stage
                Bb majorBb
I felt the thing that had been made

And how it raged
      G minorGm
And how it raged

Chorus
     Bb majorBb
How to explain?

Something makes me howl
  C majorC
And shiver to the core
   FF
Ah outside if it was raining
    Bb majorBb        C majorC
Then inside there'd be a storm
      DmDm
We've got a pair of hands for climbing
   Bb majorBb        C majorC
And a pair of knees to spring
   FF
And a pair of balls for strength
   Bb majorBb        C majorC
And a pair of lungs to sing
     F7F7
And these simple chords
     Bb majorBb      DmDm       C majorC
That say: music is the language of us all

Trumpet Break
Dm* C* G minorGm x3
DmDm C majorC

C majorC Bb majorBb A7A7

(A7A7)
To write these songs is to be written

Ah the chorus always knows
      Bb majorBb
What is in store
                G minorGm
And what is more the thing that sings us
    Bb majorBb         A7A7
Is the thing that makes us roar
(A7A7)
I felt that beast 'kisso my neck

We clapped our hands
        Bb majorBb
And heard them spread
             G minorGm
There was a trumpet and a call
     Bb majorBb           A7A7
A augmentedA pack of Spaniards screamed for more

Music is the language of us all

Music is the language of us all
              A7A7
Music is the language of us all

Music is the language of us all

Trumpet Break II
Dm* C* G minorGm x(many)
Dm* C*

Chorus
(C majorC)    Bb majorBb
I find it hard to speak emotional
  C majorC
Cos these things are the things that
       FF
Can't be said

And when it's struck it strikes
  Bb majorBb       C majorC
The memory from our heads
DmDm
Once I wrote to play's
   Bb majorBb       C majorC
To be immortal for a night
    FF
And despite the unknown hours
     Bb majorBb
Something happens
     C majorC          F7F7
When the light turns out the lights

Then we fade and yawn
  Bb majorBb        DmDm       C majorC
To music that's the language of us all