Sinai

Intro picking: 5, 3, 1, 3, on repeat or 4, 3, 1, 3 (depending on chord) Am E F Am F Picking during song: 5, 3, 1+2, 3, 1+2, 3 Am G Am You came tumbling outwards across the bed sheets F Across our mother's bruised, blood root thighs Am C While I gathered courage inside the omphalos F Too crooked and sorry to move Am C You came tumbling and I was sorry F Avoiding the knife and the guilt of a wound Am C You came tumbling and I was sorry Am Broke my first breath D A F Am Dm F On the shrub of a butcher's broom Am C And though we never meant F To chew off the lids of your eyes Am C Castor and Pollux, they spat jewels upon us F And raided the Umbriel skies Am C And now we're forced to mend F The holes for the souls of the blind Am C While we sat enamored with jewels, spat and battered F Wet with the phlegm of divine F Tiresias, we are not to blame Am One's your foe and one's your flame C Am And though the wet nurse cried, complained Dm F Of teeth marks on her fertile frame Am C You came tumbling and I was sorry Am Broke my first breath D Am F Am F On the shrub of a butcher's broom Am Indelicate C Get over it F Tomorrow it's gone It's all lost and forgotten Am The shit of it C Will make you sick F We'll waggle our tongues As we beg for forgiveness Am Tiresias, we are not to blame C (You came tumbling and I was sorry) F Am Dm F How did you know that her womb was all rotten? Am One's your foe and one's your flame C (You came tumbling and I was sorry) F We'll crease all her corners and stuff her with cotton Am And though the wet nurse cried, complained C (You came tumbling and I was sorry) F And babies make milk cries and cry when forgotten Am Of teeth marks on her fertile frame C (You came tumbling and I was sorry) F Exposing the teeth to the gums that gnawed on 'em Am C You came tumbling and I was sorry Am G C You came tumbling and I was sorry Am C You came tumbling and I was sorry Am Broke my first breath G Am F Am F Am On the shrub of a butcher's broom