Mewithoutyou - Cardiff Giant

these lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song :
E | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
B | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
G | – – 11 – 11 – – 14 – 11 – 9~ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
D | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11 – 11 – – 14 – 11 – 9 – 7~ – |
A | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
E | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |

A F#m D
ragged robbins for the curtain call
A F#m D
wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
A F#m D
carved initials in a concrete footstall
A F#m D
on the imitation marble floor
A F#m D
we’re the boxtop admissions and their throwaways ,
A F#m D
strewn across tobacco roads
A F#m D
with their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
A F#m D
drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants

A F#m D
and i
A F#m D
i often wonder if i’ve already died

[ guitar drops out; only bass/Drums play for a frame ]

A F#m D
out at elbows by the encore
A F#m D
but there’s a citadel inside
A F#m D
where i’ll go and shape my heart like yours ,
A F#m D
as you shape yours like mine
A F#m D
where we’re the spiraling arms of all galaxies
A F#m D
and we’re the microscopic sand
A F#m D
suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
A F#m D A F#m D
beside the cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes

A F#m D A F#m D
i often wonder if i’ve already died
A F#m D
i often wonder if i’ve already died ,

[ bridge ] : repeat 4

xa
or if the ’i’
A
if the ’i’
A D
is an unintelligible lie

[ outro ] :

A
off we flew like swarms of hornets
F#m D
’woken up’ from winter’s rest
A
to colonize with plastic pulp
F#m D
our neighbor’s perfect paper nest
A
while all year round potter wasp
F#m D
has buzzed her unhinged song
A
you can hear its creaking in our floorboards
F#m D
megalomania’s only mania if you’re wrong

A , F#m , D x2
A ( strummed a few times during the instrumental outro )

A : E | – – – | F#m : E | – 2 – | D : E | – 2 – |
B | – 2 – | B | – 2 – | B | – 3 – |
G | – 2 – | G | – 2 – | G | – 2 – |
D | – 2 – | D | – 4 – | D | – 0 – |
A | – 0 – | A | – 4 – | A | – – – |
E | – – – | E | – 2 – | E | – – – |