Songbook

Tenuousness

By Andrew Bird

Key of C

[Intro]
C Am

[Verse]
C
Tenuous at best was all he had to say
                       Am
When pressed about the rest of it
Am
The world, that is
     C
From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans
      Am
Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots
Am
Who hang around in ports a lot
   C   Am
Uh huh

    C
Now here's where things start getting weird
C
While chinless men will scratch their beards
   Am
Uh huh
    C
And to their minds a sharpened axe
                               Am
Will brush up on the Uralic syntaxes

[Pre-Chorus]
G
Love of hate acts as an axis

Love of hate acts as an axis
F
Oh oh
                        C     Am
First it wanes and then waxes
                             C  Am
So procreate and pay your taxes

[Chorus]
C
Ten, you, us, ness, less
Am
Seven comes to three
C                    Am
Them, you, us, plus eleven
                                G
Thank the heavens for their elasticity
               F
And that's for those who live and die
      C       Am
For astronomy

C Am

[Verse]
     C
When Coprophagia was writ, know when to stand, know when to sit
      Am
Can't stand to stand, can't stand to sit, and who would want to know this?
C           Am
Click click click

[Bridge]
G                             Em
  Who wants to look upon this
G                             Em
  Who wants to look upon this
     G
Pray tell
G                           Em
Who wants to look upon this
G                           Em
Who wants to look upon this
         G   Em
Praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tell
G      Em
  Pray tell

[Chorus]
G
Ten, you, us, ness, less
Em
Seven comes to three
G                    Em
Them, you, us, plus eleven
                    D
Comes just shy of infinity
              C
And that's for those who live and die
         G
For numerology