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Tenuousness Tab

by Andrew Bird


Song: Tenuousness
Artist: Andrew Bird
Album: Noble Beast

Normal Tuning
No Capo

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Intro: , 

                                                          
Tenuous at best was all he had to say when pressed about the 

rest of it, the world that is
                                 
from proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans
       
Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots
                                   
Who hang around in ports a lot, uh huh. 
                 
(whitsling part)

Here's where things start getting weird
                                                  
While chinless men will scratch their beards, uh huh
                                                                
To their minds a sharpened axe while 
                               
brushed up on the Uralic syntaxes

Love of hate acts as an axis
                               
Love of hate acts as an axis, oh oh
                             
First it wanes and then it waxes
                 
(whistling part)
                             
So procreate and pay your taxes
                 
(whistling part)

Ten you us ness less

seven comes to three

Them you us plus 
                                     
eleven thank the heavens for their elasticity
                                             
And that's for those who live and die for astronomy
                
(whistling part)
             
(whistling part)

When Coprophagia was writ know when to stand know when to sit
                                            
Can't stand to stand can't stand to sit and who would want to know this
                  
Click click click
                            
Who wants to look upon this
                            
Who wants to look upon this
         
pray tell
                            
Who wants to look upon this
                            
Who wants to look upon this
         
pray tell
         
pray tell
                 
Ten you us ness less 
 
seven comes to three

Them you us plus
                          
eleven comes just shy of infinity
                                  
And that's for those who live and die
           
for numerology