Intro                    Verse             Chorus                      Instrumental & Outro
Gm:  355333              D:  x00232        D:  x00232                  D:    x00232
F#m: x4422x              G:  320003        G:  320003                  G:    320033 (power)
Gm': 3103xx or 3x03xx    D7: x00212        A6: x04220               A7sus2 : x02003
F#m' 2x02xx              Bb: x13331        Bm: 224432 (last chorus)    A:    x02220
D:   054000 or x00232                                                  Bm:   224432

*The "sad strings" in some of the verses can be played like D going to a Dsus2/A: x00320
(amount of stars indicate every shift from D to Dsus2/A)
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[Intro]
(I prefer picking all the strings simultaneously instead of strumming)

Gm    F#m   Gm   F#m
Gm'   F#m'  Gm'  F#m'
Gm' F#m' D
Gm' F#m' D

D (hold)

[Verse 1]
D                        G                       D
A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
D                             G                 D
A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable
D                           G
Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad
      D7                       G
The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne
             Bb
Would often devastate the gate and hedge

     D
And set our tiny teeth on edge
   Bb
I see it in me now and pledge
    D
To knock it on the head that's what I'll do

D (hold)

[Verse 2]
D                       G                      D * * * *
A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table
D                                G                        D * * * *
Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel
D                            G
I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me
D7
Eyes and tongues and rusty knives
     G
And God almighty laughing at me
Bb
From a fat boy fishing chair
    D
I wake to find you laughing there
       Bb
It's nice to know how much you care
D                                      D D    D D
Decided I should spend my life with you

[Chorus]
        D D                     G G A6 A6
We protect our little fictions
                          D D
Like it's all we are
        D D                     G G A6 A6
Little wilderness mementos
          D D
But there's only you and me here
G G  A6 A6   D D
Fire breathing
G G  A6 A6
Hold tight
D D                A6 A6  Bm Bm           A6 A6 D D
Waiting for the original miracle

D (hold)* * * * * * * *

[Verse 3]
D                           G                       D * * * *
I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please
D                               G               D * * * *
Your paper's upside down   The radio's in Chinese
D                              G
These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals
D7
That friction up the interaction
G
Emanate from quite the greatest
Bb
Thing that ever happened to
    D
A pair of boozy bowerbirds
     Bb
Like me and you     In other words
     D                            D D         D D
The alligator pear inside of you

[Chorus]
        D D                     G G A6 A6
We protect our little fictions
                   D D
When we bow to fear
        D D                     G G A6 A6
Little wilderness mementos
          D D
But there's only you and me here

G G  A6 A6  D D
Fire breathing
G G  A6 A6
Hold tight
D D                A6 A6  Bm Bm       A6 A6 D D
Waiting for the original miracle
G G  A6 A6  D D
Fire breathing
G G  A6 A6
Hold tight
D D            A6 A6  Bm Bm           A6 A6 D D
Life is the original miracle

A6 A6  Bm Bm           A6 A6 D D

(only electric guitar & drums)

[Instrumental]
D    G    D
D    G    D
A7sus2 G A D                  (A7sus2 : x02003)
A7sus2 G A D
A Bm A D

[Outro]
D    G    D
Let's get old
D    G    D
Dare you now
A7sus2 G      A   D
Mix blood with me
A7sus2 G
All in

 D               A        Bm      A D
Love is the original miracle
D     G   D
Let's get old
D    G    D
Dare you now
A7sus2 G    A    D
Mix blood with me

A7sus2 G
All in
 D              A      Bm      A D
Love is the original miracle
                A      Bm     A D
Love is the original miracle