mewithoutYou – Cattail Down (Guitar)

Standard Tuning
the C/B/Am part is your regular
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         Am
cattail down,

             E                  Am     E
the morning rail yard whistle blows.

         Am
cattail down,

            E                   Am     E
our boxcar bound for... no one knows.

       Dm
after every hidden seed out

         G             
from it covering has been freed,

           C                B               Am
when every book has been discarded from the bookshelf.

         F
cattail down,

            E                 Am E Am E
and the forgetting of myself.

         Am
cattail down,

          E                 Am      E
replace the feathers in our vest.

         Am
cattail down,

              E
surround the ivy

               Am            E
that's gone to poison in my chest.

      Dm               
"the parachutes broke loose,"

            G              
cried the goose with misplaced

            C       B
but understandable concern

           Am              
for his little brother's mental health.

      F
his happy little brother,

           E                  Am E Am E
in the forgetting of himself.

         Am
cattail down,

           E                    Am    E
around the bulrush, the pollen shed.

          Am
cattail down,

             E
to dress my wounds,

           Am                 E
it left a bee sting in their stead.

        Dm        
headed east out of st. paul,

     G
we stopped for water.

                C
rested in the cemetery,

 B               Am
watched the mississippi.

               Dm
running out of food stamps,

                      G
found a bag along the footpath

             C   
off highway 61 filled with

       B              Am
what looked like marijuana.

          Dm
hopped a grainer out a pig's eye

       G
toward milwaukee, the deer

             C             B
between the tower and the tracks,

             Am
saw right through us.

                                 Dm
said, "you don't know where you came from,

                             G
you don't know where you're going,

                 C
you think you're you-

               B
you don't know who you are,

        Am
you're not you.

Dm G C B Am (x6)
you're everyone else.