I could be a hare and I’d sneak into my private rivals dreaming I’m a burglar
Quick as any day in my fleeting little chest of hopefuls lost it to the burglars
I can be aware and ya maybe I’m the same like pirates likened to the burglars
Threat on any day and I’m hiding from the hare who’s also hiding from the burglars

And I didn’t catch his name pow shot him on the range yow cause he was a burglar
Happens in the parks boohoo even in the old days stinking of the burglars
Happens in my home, mm-hmm, I never see it coming

When I was young we used to put
Alarms on our doors and screens like a burglar net
Now that I’m older I’m sure that’s absurd
That’s the word for the man who collects who’s he stealing from next
When I was young my parents yelled
Beware of the ivory man that will steal and sell
Now that I’m older those words are still pure
Not the look of a crook in his books what’s he taking from you?

And worried peeps go on about it
Say a lot of changes better come
A pocket full of change is emptied by
A little gawky bright and bubbly bird
A lot of heroes out there thinking bout it
But minutes of their lives are ticking down
And bottles full of love are drunken by
A tricky trite and thirsty hungry bird

Blooming tips on tulip cones that
Don’t pay out they keep on growing
Costume thieves who never hand back
Half of what you end up owing

Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?

They’re probably driving your car with someone
Close up your head cause they
Are reading your letters, come on pack up your bed for betters

(What you think you own you don’t, burglars!) x6

Stealing from the day. Didn’t take a second. Listened to a record and they got away, sneaky are the burglars
When I cross their way, helpless like a chicken, bones will soon be clinkin,
Wearing me for play, bracelet on a burglar
Thought I was ok, not as bad as some, sunset on the slums see another day, happy are the burglars
Brush it all away or do I let it sink in? Is it my ambition just to turn away? Freedom for the burglars
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?
Has this town really gotten much better are the burglars gonna keep on trying to meddle with it?

What you think you own you don’t watch out the burglars

(Spilling guts. Spillinggutsspillinggutsspillingguts…)

[Verse 1]
Takes some time to waste a guy
Must be mad, OK, a smoldering burn
Must be bad, cut deep and festering day by day

[Verse 2]
No one wants a free for all
Just a chance, a break, a lift to climb
On a back, tough luck a pebble short of quit

Only those that get into the way way back

[Verse 3]
Way way back before the thumb
Was a way, a path, a reckoning
Like a catch, sewn deep and gesturing day by day

[Verse 4]
Take a guy, an everyman
Must be glad, well off, a gentle ease
Underneath, a film that’s cracking bit by bit

Only those that get into the way
That’s that, Or maybe keep in mind

Take the hit or take the fall
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back
Fall back

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I tabbed this in about 20 minutes, so correct me if I’m wrong about anything.

Now it’s eight, I’ve been trying
to get that taste off my tongue
I was dreaming of just you,
now our cereal, it is warm

etc for the rest of the song.

Listen to the song for the rhythm

My favorite Animal Collective song.
Thanks to thombone97 for the first half of the song.

Sounds like machines talking to me on the phone.
I say, but they don’t quite get me
It’s hard to make my feelings known
Sometimes I wish for a long wave

When I’m waiting for someone to calm my tone,
bad vibes I’ve got hold dementia
When I’m one thousand Hz from home,
sometimes I wish for a short wave home

Two human beings. I’m upset, you’re upset, what’s to be done?

Old lines. Everybody talking from their homes
Bad news, but your bed will take you
If you could only feel what’s wrong
Sometimes I wish for a hand wave home

Two human beings; I’m upset, you’re upset, what’s to be done?
Two human beings; What a mess, what a mess, what’s to be done?

You got to slide off like mercury
Can I play my part like mercury?
Would you let me feel like mercury?
Can I always be like mercury?

oooooooooooooooooooooooooo (interlude)
(x4)

We must be somewhere
Can’t find it (nowhere love)
Is it me?
I keep calling
It feels like there’s no one there
(x4)

A# – D# (x8)
[-] [-] [-]
[verse 1]

Don’t care whether this ship sails or
sinks into the meat

Don’t know if a lesson matters
less than What’s to eat

While you got it you figure why not
launch off of the very highest rope

[verse 2]

Not trying to be shore side
Scoping breaks to score a ride

More like causing fractures
From the deep to make a tide

Who needs slicker tools to build
a portrait out of place

Not trying to be sneaky when it’s
wanting face to face

When you’re rotten you figure why not
Stick up for the very finest dope

[instrumental break]

[-] [-] [-]
[-] [-] [-]
[-] [-] [-]

[verse 3]

Don’t care if a lesion’s
Clotting up or ceases to bleed

Don’t know if a lesson
Is a pleasure or a need

While you’re huffing you figure why not
soak up all the craze instead of cope

A# (for a while, eventually shift to) C

Animal Collective – For Reverend Green

This is a great song from “Strawberry Jam”. Listen to the song for the strumming pattern.

Chords:

A: 577655
C#m: x46654
Bm: 799777
E: x7999x

Intro: A (Repeat for a while)
A, C#m, Bm, E

Reading in the papers to know what’s best
Sometimes you don’t know yourself
Eating loads of vitamins for your health

Red negativity in the street
Maybe it’s the dirt, maybe it’s the heat
A baby on the bus smiled at me so easy

Now I think it’s alright we’re together
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s the best you’ve ever played it
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s alright to feel inhuman
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s alright to sing together
Now I think that’s a riot

A running child’s bloody with burning knees
A kid that stabs mommy flew in the trees
A camping child’s happy with winter’s freeze
A lucky child don’t know how lucky she is

A thousand wasted brooklyners all depressed
The ins and outs of something’s chest
He’ll only be a friend if he touches your breast

Shifting in the plates of what you ingest

Bulimic vegetarian wins weight contest

Now I think it’s alright we’re together
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s the best you’ve ever played it
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s alright to feel inhuman
Now I think that’s a riot
Now I think it’s alright to sing together
Now I think that’s a riot

A running child’s bloody with burning knees
A kid that stabs mommy flew in the trees
A camping child’s happy with winter’s freeze
A lucky child don’t know how lucky he is

For Reverend Green
For Reverend Green (x 4)

Do-doo-doo-doo

Golden Gal on her screen
Some kind of tune she never seen
That give’s you the girl who abandoned her dream
Open your phone, say hi to the beast
Spirit is burning, to hear it for the girls again

So complex and brave!
A power I know without showing some legs
Give her a rose, not just sexual things
When you gotta rejuve, said it be right away
And it came in anew, blame it on the girls again

It’s a strange kind of plot,
Who steps and paves the Golden way?
With your humor that is known, put me, put me in my place
If it weren’t so tricky, how we know what to say

My gal you’re so strong,
You should hold your head above them
And you need not ask for much to get my praise

Golden Gal on her screen
Some kind of tune she never seen
That give’s you the girl who abandoned her dream
Open your phone, say hi to the beast
Spirit is burning, to hear it for the girls again

Let me dress up like a Golden Gal and have my Golden day
Let me watch the mark of man who’s thrown out tableside and grace
I can only dream of how I’d be so amazed

The gals were right on,
When she needed lies to fall on,
And for all of this and more I give them praise

(“Flytrap!”) (Keyboard solo)

You’d think the gal should feel so comfortable these days,
But sexy genders bring some troubles to the fray,
And trouble tears apart
Another Golden heart
So I want to be the reminder that she’s stronger than the (bull, all of the day?)

(Golden Gal!)
Gave me my strength,
She said i’ll be here for you later boy,
Now run along, you have to fall

(Golden Gal!)
Gave me my faith,
And all it took was some belief,
I don’t believe that she should change at all

(Golden Gal!)
Taught me restraint,
She said, I wouldn’t be more much later, dude,
I’m your everything and now you’re torn

(Golden Gal!)
I’ll be beside her,
I might want to stand in line to find,
The kind of mind she can’t refine

You’d think the gal should feel so comfortable these days,
But sexy genders bring some troubles to the fray,
And trouble tears apart
Another Golden heart
So I want to be the reminder that she’s stronger than the (bull, all of the day?)

(Golden Gal!)
Gave me my strength,
She said i’ll be here for you later boy,
Now run along, you have to fall

(Golden Gal!)
Gave me my faith,
And all it took was some belief,
I don’t believe that she should change at all

(Golden Gal!)
Taught me restraint,
She said, I wouldn’t be more much later, dude,
I’m your everything and now you’re torn

(Golden Gal!)
I’ll be beside her,
I might want to stand in line to find,
The kind of mind she can’t refine

Here for a while I’ll follow my Golden Gal