Plea From A Cat Named Virtute Chords by The Weakerthans

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[G#] _ _ _ Why don't you ever want to [C#] [D#] play?
I'm tired of this piece [C#] of [D#] string.
You sleep as much as I do now [C#] and you _ don't eat [G#] much of anything. _
_ I don't know who you're talking to.
[C#] _ I made a search through every room.
[D#] _ But all I found was dust that [C#] moved in the shadows [G#] of the _ afternoon.
Listen, _ _ _ _ but [C#] those bitter songs you sing, they're [A#m] not helping anything.
_ _ They [C#] won't _ _ make _ you [G#] _ stop.
So we should open up the [C#] house, invite the tabby two doors [D#] down.
_ You could ask your sister [C#] if she doesn't [G#] bring her basset hound.
_ _ Ask her things you shouldn't miss.
[C#] _ _ Take his and the modern [D#] man.
_ Cold war and card _ [C#] catalogs.
_ Come and [G#] join us if they can.
_ _ Curly drinks and parlor [C#] games.
We'll pass around the easy life [D#] _ with absolutely no regrets.
[C#] _ And later [G#] maybe you could try _ to let your losses dangle [C#] off the sharp edge of a century. _
[D#] _ _ Talk about the weather or [C#] how the [G#] weather used to be.
And I'll cater _ _ _ with [C#] all the birds that I can kill.
Let [A#m] their tiny feathers spill. _ _
[C#] _ _ _ So modern man, [G#] lie _ down.
And lick [C#] the sorrow from your skin.
Scratch [A#m] the terror at the gin. _ _
[C#] Believe _ _ _ _ you're [G#] _ _ strong. _ _ _ _
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[G#] All you [A#] ever want to do [Cm] is drink and watch [C#] TV. _ _
_ [Fm] Frankly that [G#m] thing doesn't really [A#] interest me.
_ _ [G#] I swear I'm gonna [A] bite you hard [A#m] and taste your tinny [C#] blood.
_ If you don't [C#m] stop the self [G#]-defeating lies you've [Dm] been repeating since [C#] the day you brought me home.
_ I know you're [G#] strong.
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