Plea From A Cat Named Virtute chords by The Weakerthans

• Capo on 4th

Verse (palm mute)             Chorus

      E   E/A   B    A   E-open     E    A   F#m
e|-----------------------------|----0----0----2----|
B|-----------------------------|----0----2----2----|
G|------------------------1----|----1----2----2----|
D|----6----6----9----7----2----|----2----2----4----|
A|----7----7----9----7----2----|----2----0----4----|
E|---------5----7----5----0----|----0---------2----|


Capo 4th fret


Intro:
E  E/A  B  A   E-open

First Verses:
E
    Why don't you ever wanna play
E/A
    I'm tired of this piece of string
B
    You sleep as much as I do now and you
A                      E-open
    Don't eat much of anything

E
    I don't know who you're talking to
E/A
    I made a search through every room
B
    But all I found was dust that moved
A                       E-open
    With shadows of the afternoon


Chorus 1:
    E
And listen
            A
About those bitter songs you sing
            F#m
They're not helping anything
           A        E
They won't make you strong


Second Verses:
E
    So we should open up the house
E/A
    Invite the tabby two doors down
B
    You could ask your sister if
A                         E-open
    She doesn't bring her basset hound

E
    Asked of things you shouldn't miss
E/A
    Tape hiss and the modern man
B
    Cold war and card catalogues
A                   E-open
    To come join us if they can

E
    For girly drinks and parlour games
E/A
    We'll pass around the easy lie
B
    Of absolutely no regrets
A                   E-open
    And later maybe you could try

E
    To let your losses dangle off
E/A
    The sharp edge of a century
B
    Talk about the weather or
A                   E-open
    How the weather used to be


Chorus 2:
         E
And I'll cater
             A
With all the birds that I can kill
          F#m
Let their tiny feathers fill
    A
Disappointment

E
Lie down
             A
And lick the sorrow from your skin
            F#m
Scratch the terror and begin
     A            E
To believe you're strong


Outro:

        First line         Second line         Third line           Fourth line
     E   F#m  B/G#  A     A/C#  E  A/A#     E   Fm   F#m   A     A/C# A/C  E  A/A#
e|---0----2---------0---|---------------|---0--------------0---|-------------------|
B|---0----2---------2---|---------------|---0----1----2----2---|-------------------|
G|---1----2---------2---|---------------|---1----1----2----2---|-------------------|
D|---2----4----4----2---|---2---2---2---|---2----3----4----2---|---2---2---2---2---|
A|---2----4----2----0---|---4---2---1---|---2----3----4----0---|---4---3---2---1---|
E|---0----2----4--------|---------------|---0----1----2--------|-------------------|

E            F#m           B/G#             A
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
    A/C#               E                 A/A#
And frankly that thing doesn't really interest me
  E               Fm                F#m              A
I swear I'm gonna bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
   A/C#               A/C            E                  A/A#
If you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating
          A                                      E
Since the day you brought me home, I know you're strong