The Shins – Red Rabbits (Ukulele)

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Chords

[Intro] G C F G Em F G Em Am Bb [Verse]
G              C              F
Hurled to the center of the earth again

G                     Em
The place where it’s hot love

             F                 G
You know it hurts to breathe in

G        Em                          Am
And the watershed you balance on is begging it

             Bb                  D
Well did he ever know?  Will he ever know?

G                 C               F
The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice

G        Em              F       G
So you catalogue every angle you notice

G     Em                       Am
In a vacuum you are charged to record this

        C             D      C
So you won’t make it easy on me
[Chorus]
C  G                     F
I can’t go into this no more

             G                 C
It puts too many thorns on my mind

         D                        G
And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor

                F   G   F  G  C
We’ve pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites

             D
And they’re all standing up for their rights
[Instrumental] G C F G Em F [Verse]
G          C                        F
Born on a desert floor, you’ve the deepest thirst

G        Em              F          G
And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it

G        Em                           Am
With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan

              Bb                     
But there was not enough, there is not enough

G         C              F
Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits

G       Em            F           G
Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion

G      Em                            Am
And we can’t allow a chance they’d restore themselves

       C             D       C
So we can’t make it easy on you
[Chorus 2]
C  G                            F
Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries

              G                 C
The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes

    D                         G
A reward for letting nothing under their skin

           F G     F     G C
So help me I don’t know, I might

      D                            Bb  G
Just give the ole Dark Side a try
[Bridge]
      C                             D
Don’t cast your willing eyes on the shore

                        Bb   G
‘til we even the score

         C                          D
I still owe you for he hole in the floor

                           Bb   G
And the ghost in the hall

     C                            D
Who decides who paddles over the falls?

D
Yeah, who makes the call?  Who makes the call?
[Instrumental] G C F G Em F G Em Am Bb G C F G Em F G Em Am D [Chorus 3]
C G                     F
I know there’s an eventual

             G               C
Release from every scale of crime

         D                        G
But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor

                F   G   F  G  F    G   F   G
We’ve pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions

F    G  F   G   C
Held by cle-ver sprites

             D
And they’re all standing up for their rights
[Outro] G