• Song:

    Cardinal Song

  • Artist:

    The National

  • Album:

    Sad Songs for Dirty Lov...

Capo on 2


Never look her in the eyes
Never tell the truth
E5
If she knows you're paper
G5
You know she'll have to burn you

E5
Never tell the one you want 
G5
That you do
E5
Save it for the deathbed
         G5
When you know you kept her wanting you

    A5 
And do 
D5                     C5   E5   F5
Everything she'd never do

E5
Fall asleep with stranger's wives
G5
The wild wives of unknown men
E5
Good for you, you've just become
G5
Just another one of them

G5
Never say you miss her
E5              F5 ( A5 )
Never say a word

    A5 
And do 
D5                     C5  E5 A5
Everything she'd never do

C5                G5
Don't let her see your cardinal eyes
C5                G5

                        E5
Let her treat you like a criminal
           G5
So you can treat her like a priest
E5
Girls forgive my human mind
G5
Girls forgive me one more time

E5
Never tell the one you love 
G5
That you do
E5              
Save it for the deathbed

    A5     
And do 
D5                     C5
Everything she'd never do

C5                G5
Don't let her see your cardinal eyes
C5                G5
C5                G5
Don't let her see your cardinal eyes
C5                G5

C5 G5 x9
C Dm7 (really not sure about this 2d chord...doesn't sound like G to me)
C5 

D5  C5  G5

G5  E5  C5
E5  C5

E5                             C5
Jesus christ you have confused me
E5                             C5
Cornered, wasted, blessed and used me
E5
Forgive me girls i am confused
C5                             A5
Stiff and pissed and lost and loose

E5                             C5
Jesus christ you have confused me
E5                             C5
Cornered, wasted, blessed and used me
E5
Forgive me girls i am confused
C5                             A5
Stiff and pissed and lost and loose

Am , until end
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