Plea From A Cat Named Virtue

	  		

 
Intro: E A B A E  

E 
Why don't you ever wanna play? 
A 
I'm tired of this piece of string 
B 
You sleep as much as I do now, 
         A                 E 
and you don't eat much of anything 

E 
I don't know who you're talking to 
A 
I made a search through every room 
B 
but all I found was dust that moved 
   A              E 
with shadows of the afternoon 

E                       A 
And listen, about those bitter songs you sing 
            Fm 
they're not helping anything 
           A        E 
they won't make you strong 

E 
So we should open up the house 
A 
invite the tabby two doors down 
B                              
You could ask your sister if 
A                     E 
she doesn't bring her basset hound 

E 
Ask the things you shouldn't miss 
A 
tape hiss and the modern man 
B 
cold war and card catalogues 
A                E 
to come join us if they can 

E 
For girly drinks and parlor games 
A 
we'll pass around the easy lie 
B 
of absolutely no regrets 
A               E 
and later maybe you could try 

E 
To let your losses dangle off 
A 
the sharp edge of a century 
B 
We'll talk about the weather 
   A               E 
or how the weather use to be 

E                            A 
And I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill 
          Fm                 A 
let their tiny feathers fill disappointment 
E                      A 
Lie down, and lick the sorrow from your skin 
            Fm                  A              E 
Scratch the terror and begin to believe you're strong 

(SLOWLY) 
E                          A 
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV 
E                                 A 
frankly that thing doesn't really interest me 
E                                      A 
I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood 
E 
if you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating 
                  A               (PAUSE)                 
since the day you brought me home 
              E       A B A E  (2x)  
I know you're strong.