• Song:

    Cardiff Giant

  • Artist:

    Mewithoutyou

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-(b9)7~- | 
A | ---------------------------------------------- | 
E | ---------------------------------------------- |    



A5                       F#5           D5
Ragged robbins for the curtain call
A5                         F#5            D5
Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
A5                       F#5              D5
Carved initials in a concrete footstall
A5                 F#5          D5
On the imitation marble floor
A5                     F#5           D5
We're the boxtop admissions and their throwaways,
A5               F#5     D5
Strewn across tobacco roads
A5                    F#5             D5
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
A5                  F#5            D5
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants


A5 F#5 D5
And I 
A5        F#5              D5
I often wonder if I've already died

[GUITAR DROPS OUT; Only bass/drums play for a frame]


A5               F#5         D5
Out at elbows by the encore
A5                    F#5      D5
But there's a citadel inside
A5                          F#5           D5
Where I'll go and shape my heart like yours,
A5                  F#5      D5
As you shape yours like mine
A5                          F#5            D5
Where we're the spiraling arms of all galaxies
A5                      F#5           D5
And we're the microscopic sand
A5                              F#5         D5
Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
A5                    F#5              D5      A5 F#5 D5
Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes


A5         F#5            D5     A5 F#5 D5
I often wonder if I've already died
A5        F#5              D5
I often wonder if I've already died,


[BRIDGE]: repeat 4x

A5
Or if the 'I' 
A5
if the 'I'
A5           D5
is an unintelligible lie 

[OUTRO]:

A5                  
Off we flew like swarms of hornets
F#5              D5
'Woken up' from winter's rest
A5
To colonize with plastic pulp
      F#5               D5
Our neighbor's perfect paper nest
A5
While all year round potter wasp
      F#5          D5
Has buzzed her unhinged song
A5
You can hear its creaking in our floorboards
F#5                  D5
Megalomania's only mania if you're wrong

A5 , F#5 , D5 x2
A (strummed a few times during the instrumental outro)

A5 : e---    F#5 : e-2-       D5 : 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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