The Mountain Goats – Autoclave (Ukulele)

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--tabbed by mike/howardfinkel483 on themountaingoats.net --tweaked and extended by me [Intro] C C/B Am G [Verse 1]
C            C/B          Am           G
Hand me your hand, let me look in your eyes

      C                    C/B    Am          G
As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize

C              C/B           Am                 G
Maybe it’s the heat in here, maybe it’s the pressure

F
You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better
[Chorus]
          C         C/B   Am                 G
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam

    C              C/B             Am                G
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home

              F
My heart’s an autoclave

              C
My heart’s an autoclave
[Verse 2]
        C          C/B         Am             G
When I try to open up to you I get completely lost

C                 C/B          Am                  G
Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost

C                 C/B                  Am                 G
And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn

            F
And there’s no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn
[Chorus]
          C         C/B   Am                 G
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam

    C          C/B                       Am                 G
And no emotion that's worth having would call my heart its home

              F
My heart’s an autoclave

              C
My heart’s an autoclave
[Verse 3]
    C               C/B               Am             G
I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls

       C              C/B            Am                   G
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls

         C              C/B         Am              G
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame

    F
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
[Chorus]
          C         C/B   Am                 G
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam

    C              C/B             Am                G
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home

              F
My heart’s an autoclave

              C
My heart’s an autoclave
C C/B Am G F