Artist: Andrew Bird Song: Cataracts Album: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum, 2007) Standard Tuning Intro: Am F (x2) G C When our mouths are filled F with uninvited tongues of others C And the strays are pining F for their unrequited mothers C G Milk that sours is promptly spat Am F Light will fill our eyes like cats C F And they shall enter from the back C With spears and scepters and squirming sacks G Scribs and tangles between their ears Am Faceless scrumbled charcoal smears F (C) ...oh dear... Through the coppice and the chaparral The thickets thick with mold The bracken and the brier Am F Am F Catchweed into the fold (whistle solo) C F C F C G Am F C When our mouths are filled F with uninvited tongues of others C And the strays are pining F for their unrequited mothers C G Milk that sours is promptly spat Am Light will fill our eyes like ...cats F Am Light will fill our eyes like cats F Am F Am F G C Cataracts