Andrew Bird – Imitosis (Guitar)

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Note: Play in "reggae style", first with a muted down-stroke, 
then play the chord using an up-stroke: 
|-X-Am-X-Am-X-C-X-C-|-X-Fmaj7-X-Fmaj7-X-E-X-E-|

 let ring
    Am      C/G       Fmaj7     E
|| -----5-7-----7-8-|-----5-7--(5)h7p5--- ||
|| -----------5-----|---6--------------6- ||
||O---5-----5-------|-4------------------O||
||O-7---------------|--------------------O||
|| -----------------|-------------------- ||
|| -----------------|-------------------- || 

Am               C/G          Fmaj7         E
He's keeping busy, yeah, he's bleeding stones

Am         C/G            Fmaj7    E
With his machinations and his palindromes

Am        C/G                Fmaj7   E
It was anything but hear the voice

Am           C/G            Fmaj7  E
Anything but hear the voice

        Am          C/G
It was anything but hear the voice

     Fmaj7               E          Am   C/G  Fmaj7  E
That says that we're all basically alone

Am             C/G         Fmaj7       E
Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions

        Am             C/G          Fmaj7  E
When he put his Bunsen burners all away

    Am           C/G             Fmaj7
And turning to a playground in a Petri dish

      E                  Am
Where single cells would swing their fists

   C/G           Fmaj7           E
At anything that looks like easy prey

       Am      C/G       Fmaj7       E
In this nature show that rages every day

       Am      C/G       Fmaj7  E (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say

                       Am
We were all basically alone

    C/G                   Fmaj       E
And despite what all his studies had shown

               Am             C/G         Fmaj7         E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case for mitosis

    Am  C/G    Fmaj7        E           Am         C/G       Fmaj7  E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?

Am             C/G     Fmaj7     E
Tell me doctor can you quantify?

Am               C/G       Fmaj7  E (strum louder)
He just wants to know the reason,   the reason why

            Am            C/G
Why do they congregate in groups of four

Fmaj7          E        Am
Scatter like a billion spores

            C/G       Fmaj7       E
And let the wind just carry them away?

Am           C/G    Fmaj7
How can kids be so mean?

           E               Am
Our famous doctor tried to glean

      C/G              Fmaj7      E
As he went home at the end of the day

      Am       C/G       Fmaj7       E
In this nature show that rages every day

       Am      C/G       Fmaj7  E  (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say

                       Am
We were all basically alone

   C/G                Fmaj7      E
Despite what all his studies had shown

               Am           C/G              Fmaj7     E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case of mitosis

Am         C/G         Fmaj7             E
Sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis

    Am  C/G    Fmaj7        E           Am         C/G       Fmaj7  E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?

              Am              C/G      Fmaj7
Well, tell me doctor, can you quantify?