Plea From a Cat Named Virtue
Capo 4
Intro: E5 A5 B5 A5 E5
E5
Why don't you ever wanna play?
A5
I'm tired of this piece of string
B5
You sleep as much as I do now,
A5 E5
and you don't eat much of anything
E5
I don't know who you're talking to
A5
I made a search through every room
B5
but all I found was dust that moved
A5 E5
with shadows of the afternoon
E5 A5
And listen, about those bitter songs you sing
F5
they're not helping anything
A5 E5
they won't make you strong
E5
So we should open up the house
A5
invite the tabby two doors down
B5
You could ask your sister if
A5 E5
she doesn't bring her basset hound
E5
Ask the things you shouldn't miss
A5
tape hiss and the modern man
B5
cold war and card catalogues
A5 E5
to come join us if they can
E5
For girly drinks and parlor games
A5
we'll pass around the easy lie
B5
of absolutely no regrets
A5 E5
and later maybe you could try
E5
To let your losses dangle off
A5
the sharp edge of a century
B5
We'll talk about the weather
A5 E5
or how the weather use to be
E5 A5
And I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill
F5 A5
let their tiny feathers fill disappointment
E5 A5
Lie down, and lick the sorrow from your skin
F5 A5 E5
Scratch the terror and begin to believe you're strong
(SLOWLY)
E5 A5
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
E5 A5
frankly that thing doesn't really interest me
E5 A5
I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
E5
if you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating
A5 (PAUSE5 )
since the day you brought me home
E5 A5 B5 A5 E5 X 2 End on E5
I know you're strong.
