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Cardiff Giant by mewithoutYou
Cardiff Giant
These lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song:
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B|----------------------------------------------|
G|--11-11--14-11-9~-----------------------------|
D|----------------------------11-11--14-11-9-7~-|
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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 4x
A
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|---|
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version 2
Standard tuning. Solo that begins at 2:51
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|--88-8-8p7-8h10~--88-8-8p7-8p7---3/5--88-8-8p7-5---3-5------|
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|---------------------------------------------------------7--|
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|--6h7-9/11\9--6h7-9/11\9--6h7-9/11\9--7h8p7h8-10--|
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|--21-21--17--19--17--15--15-15--15-15\14--12--|
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|--7/9--9\7-----9-h10--10p9~~--------------------------|
|-----------10--10-------------7h8-8h7-8h10--8--7--5~--|
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|-----7-------------------------------------------|
|--10---10-------7~-------------------------------|
|----------9-----6~---6----------6----------------|
|------------------------7--9--7---7/9--7--9--7~--|
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Ragged robbins for the curtain call
Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
Carved initials in a concrete footstall
On the imitation marble floor
We’re the boxtop admissions and their throwaways,
Strewn across tobacco roads
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants
And I often wonder if Ive already died
Out at elbows by the encore
But there’s a citadel inside
Where I’ll go and shape my heart like yours,
As you shape yours like mine
Where we’re the spiraling arms of all galaxies
And we’re the microscopic sand
Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes
I often wonder if I've already died,
Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie
Off we flew like swarms of hornets
'Woken up' from winter’s rest
To colonize with plastic pulp
Our neighbor’s perfect paper nest
While all year round potter wasp
Has buzzed her unhinged song:
You can hear its creaking in our floorboards:
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