Chords
Plea From A Cat Named Virtute

Key: G

Introduction: G    C    F    C    

G  
        Why don?t you ever want to play?
C  
        I?m tired of this piece of string
D  
        You sleep as much as I do now and you
C                                                 G                    D/F#  
     Don?t eat much of anything
G  
     I don?t know who you?re talking to
C  
     I?ve made a search through every room
D  
     But all I found was dust that moved
                C                                      G                         D/F#  
     And shadows of the afternoon
          G  
And listen
                                C  
About those bitter songs you sing
                                Am  
They?re not helping anything
                             C                    G  
They won?t make you strong
Verse 2
G  
     So we should open up the house
C  
     Invite the tabby two doors down
D  
     You can ask your sister if
C                                                            G                                 D/F#  
     She doesn?t bring her basset hound
G  
     And as for things you shouldn?t miss
C  
     Tape hiss and the modern man
D  
     Cold war and card catalogues
C                                                         G                            D/F#  
     To come and join us if they can
G  
     For girly drinks and parlour games
C  
     We?ll pass around the easy lie
D  
     Of absolutely no regrets
C                                                 G                              D/F#  
     Then later maybe you could try
G  
     To let your losses dangle off
C  
     The sharp edge of the century
D  
     We?ll talk about the weather or
C                                              G                         D/F#  
     How the weather used to be
                        G  
And I?ll cater
                                  C  
With all the birds that I can kill
                          Am  
Let their tiny feathers fill
                C  
Disappointment
G  
Lie down
                          C  
Lick the sorrow from your skin
                                Am  
Scratch the terror and begin
                  C                              G  
To believe you?re strong
Instrumental
G  C  F  C  
Bridge
G                              D#                              Em                                      C  
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
C                                              G                                      C  
Frankly that thing doesn?t really interest me
     G                                              D#  
I swear I?m going to bite you hard
          Em                                 C#  
And taste your tinny blood
        D#                                            D                                    Em                                      Am  
If you don?t stop the self-defeating lies you?ve been repeating
                          C  
Since the day you brought me home
                                     G                 C  F  C  
I know you?re strong
                                     G                 C  F  C  
I know you?re strong
                                     G                 C  F  C  
I know you?re strong
                                     G                 C  F  C  
I know you?re strong
Outro
G