Andrew Bird – Cataracts (Ukulele)

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Artist: Andrew Bird Song: Cataracts Album: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum, 2007) Intro: Am F (x2) G
C
  When our mouths are filled 

     F
with uninvited tongues of others

C
  And the strays are pining 

F
for their unrequited mothers

C                             G
  Milk that sours is promptly spat

                      Am              F
Light will fill our eyes like cats

C                                          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

      F        (C)
...oh dear...
Through the coppice and the chaparral The thickets thick with mold The bracken and the brier
                    Am    F   Am   F
Catchweed into the fold
(whistle solo) C F C F C G Am F
C
  When our mouths are filled 

     F
with uninvited tongues of others

C
  And the strays are pining 

F
for their unrequited mothers

C                             G
  Milk that sours is promptly spat

                             Am  
Light will fill our eyes like ...cats

F                           Am
   Light will fill our eyes like cats

F      Am      F    Am    F    G    C
   Cataracts