The Handsome Family – Caterpillars (Guitar)

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From the album Wilderness [INTRO] E E7
C  E7 Am
Oh-oh-oh
[VERSE 1]
Am            C 
Sylvia was struck by lightning 

       Dm                 F
while reading in bed one night

       Am              C
She'd left the windows open,

          Dm                     F
and the storm caught her by surprise
[VERSE 2]
     Am            C
For days she lay still as stone 

 Dm                  F
hooked to pumps and tubes

     Am                     C
Then out her window, the street lights flashed 

        Dm               F
and at last her fingers moved
[BRIDGE]
      F           E
She awoke to a cacophony 

     F                 E
of electric and radio waves

 F              E
Pulsing rays of energy 

 F                   E  E7
falling from outer space
[INTERLUDE]
C  E7 Am
Oh-oh-oh
[VERSE 3]
 Am              C
High in swaying towers, 

         Dm                F
down in basements full of dust

          Am               C
She could not escape the static

        Dm          F
or the sixty cycle hum
[VERSE 4]
          Am           C
She wore dark-tinted spectacles

 Dm                F
several fur-lined capes

  Am            C
Three pairs of velvet gloves

   Dm              F    
a veil of dotted swiss
[BRIDGE]
     F                  E
But all the Earth's vibrations 

       F                   E
still pounded through her ears

        F                 E
So she packed a steamer trunk

             F              E  E7
and flew a prop plane to Belize
[INTERLUDE]
C  E7 Am
Oh-oh-oh
[VERSE 5]
       Am              C
From there a log raft took her 

      Dm          F
over raging waterfalls

         Am            C
Deep within uncharted jungle 

        Dm                 F
where giant caterpillars crawl
[VERSE 6]
      Am               C
They spun their silk around her

     Dm                F
a cocoon beneath the trees

      Am                    C
And still she hangs there swaying

         Dm                F
deep within the dripping leaves
[BRIDGE]
         F               E
Keeping time with every rumble, 

       F             E
every quiver of the Earth

          F              E
And she slowly changes shape 

          F              E   E7
with the turning of the world
[INTERLUDE]
C  E7 Am
Oh-oh-oh
Am C Dm F x4 [OUTRO] F E x 4 E7
C  E7 Am
Oh-oh-oh