Chord/Tab song: Animal Life

band: Shearwater
Song: Animal life

Intro
[B] [F#]

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[Abm] [E] [F#] [E]

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chords corresponding to chords above in vers.

Verse:

[B]Born inside the gates of the family
[F#b9]Hardened by a Roman machinery
[E]Cast among the building sites
[Abm]The coiling wires, the shots colle[F#b9]cted

[B]Called out in the wake of a lottery
[F#b9]Held inside the family gathering
[E]Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
[Abm]The wandering association[F#b9]

Chorus:
[E]Murmurs in the dark confessi[Abm]onal[F#]
[E]And it rides along the road, ephem[Abm]eral[F#]
As in animal lif[B]e

Verse:
Rusting in the shade of the batteries
Hanging from a rope in the gallery
Pacing down the balance beam of half-remembered holidays

No rush of light, no sign of belonging
No joy in building, love in the finishing
Chasing down an anodyne and half-reflected radiance

Chorus:
To hide below the ancient barricade
In chambers like the rooms a swallow made
For an animal life

Insturmental: intro chords x2

Verse:
Charging down the maw of the ocean
I wanna come close, I wanna come closer
I held your name inside my mouth through all the days of wandering

[B]But called out from the mouth of oblivion
[A]Cast away like dogs from the shelter
I [E]shed the dulling armor plates
That onc[Abm]e collected radiance[F#]

Chorus:
And surging at the blood's perimeter
The half-remembered wild interior
Of an animal life