Cardiff Giant chords by MewithoutYou

Chords with lyrics

These lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song:
e|----------------------------------------------|
BB|----------------------------------------------|
G+G|--11-11--14-11-9~-----------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------------------11-11--14-11-9-7~-|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------|


A augmentedA            F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Ragged robbins for the curtain call
A augmentedA             F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
A augmentedA            F# minorF#m       D MajorD
Carved initials in a concrete footstall
A augmentedA         F# minorF#m     D MajorD
On the imitation marble floor
A augmentedA           F# minorF#m      D MajorD
We're the boxtop admissions and their throwaways,
A augmentedA        F# minorF#m   D MajorD
Strewn across tobacco roads
A augmentedA          F# minorF#m       D MajorD
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
A augmentedA         F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants

A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD
And I
A augmentedA    F# minorF#m       D MajorD
I often wonder if I've already died

[GUITAR DROPS OUT; Only bass/drums play for a frame]

A augmentedA        F# minorF#m     D MajorD
Out at elbows by the encore
A augmentedA          F# minorF#m   D MajorD
But there's a citadel inside
A augmentedA             F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Where I'll go and shape my heart like yours,
A augmentedA         F# minorF#m   D MajorD
As you shape yours like mine
A augmentedA             F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Where we're the spiraling arms of all galaxies
A augmentedA           F# minorF#m      D MajorD
And we're the microscopic sand
A augmentedA               F# minorF#m     D MajorD
Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
A augmentedA          F# minorF#m       D MajorD   A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD
Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes

A augmentedA     F# minorF#m      D MajorD   A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD
I often wonder if I've already died
A augmentedA    F# minorF#m       D MajorD
I often wonder if I've already died,

[BRIDGE]: repeat 4x

A augmentedA
Or if the 'I'
A augmentedA
if the 'I'
A augmentedA      D MajorD
is an unintelligible lie

[OUTRO]:

A augmentedA
Off we flew like swarms of hornets
F# minorF#m       D MajorD
'Woken up' from winter's rest
A augmentedA
To colonize with plastic pulp
   F# minorF#m        D MajorD
Our neighbor's perfect paper nest
A augmentedA
While all year round potter wasp
   F# minorF#m     D MajorD
Has buzzed her unhinged song
A augmentedA
You can hear its creaking in our floorboards
F# minorF#m         D MajorD
Megalomania's only mania if you're wrong

A, F#m, D MajorD x2
A augmentedA (strummed a few times during the instrumental outro)

A: e|---|  F#m: e|-2-|    D: e|-2-|
  BB|-2-|     BB|-2-|     BB|-3-|
  G+G|-2-|     G+G|-2-|     G+G|-2-|
  D MajorD|-2-|     D MajorD|-4-|     D MajorD|-0-|
  A augmentedA|-0-|     A augmentedA|-4-|     A augmentedA|---|
  E MajorE|---|     E MajorE|-2-|     E MajorE|---|