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How To Explain
Cat Empire
Tabbed by Damsk1849
I'm pretty sure a lot of this is right.
I'm least certain about the end of the chorus
"music is the language of us all" bit, so if
anyone that knows better would like to email me
that'd be cool: jazzman_law@hotmail.com
(I don't consider to be a jazzman of any sort,
I made that address when I was 12)
Chords:
C: 8 10 10 9 8 8
Bb: 6 8 8 7 6 6
A7: 5 7 5 6 5 5
Gm: 3 5 5 3 3 3
F: 1 3 3 2 1 1
Dm: x 5 7 7 6 5
F7: 1 3 1 2 1 1
Dm*: x x 0 2 3 1
C*: x 3 2 0 1 0
(Trumpet Intro)
C Bb A7
A7When a room becomes an altar
And what beast that must exist
It flies with Bbmusic from our lips
And steals a Gmkiss and blows it
BbOut into the A7mist
(A7)
Where castles stand on cliffs
And cobbled streets they wind and drift
And moods are Bbmade and set but shift
This place where Gmskies are low
BbAnd birds are A7big
(A7)
We went to sleep in day
And woke again the same day
We have Bblearned to cheat the time
And find the Gmhours
That the Bbclocks cannot A7define
(A7)
As I looked up from that stage
I felt the thing that had been Bbmade
And how it raged
And how it Gmraged
Chorus
How to exBbplain?
Something makes me howl
And Cshiver to the core
Ah outFside if it was raining
Then inBbside there'd be a Cstorm
We've got a Dmpair of hands for climbing
And a Bbpair of knees to Cspring
And a Fpair of balls for strength
And a Bbpair of lungs to Csing
And these F7simple chords
That say: Bbmusic is the Dmlanguage of us Call
Trumpet Break
Dm* C* Gm x3
Dm C
C Bb A7
(A7)
To write these songs is to be written
Ah the chorus always knows
What is in Bbstore
And what is more the thing that Gmsings us
Is the Bbthing that makes us A7roar
(A7)
I felt that beast 'kisso my neck
We clapped our hands
And heard them Bbspread
There was a trumpet and a Gmcall
A pack of BbSpaniards screamed for A7more
Music is the language of us all
Music is the language of us all
Music is the language of us A7all
Music is the language of us all
Trumpet Break II
Dm* C* Gm x(many)
Dm* C*
Chorus
(C) Bb
I find it hard to speak emotional
Cos Cthese things are the things that
Can't be said F
And when it's struck it strikes
The Bbmemory from our Cheads
DmOnce I wrote to play's
To be Bbimmortal for a Cnight
And desFpite the unknown hours
Something Bbhappens
When the Clight turns out the F7lights
Then we fade and yawn
To Bbmusic that's the Dmlanguage of us Call