Caterpillars chords by The Handsome Family

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Oh-oh-oh

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Sylvia was struck by lightning
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while reading in bed one night
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She'd left the windows open,
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and the storm caught her by surprise

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For days she lay still as stone
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hooked to pumps and tubes
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Then out her window, the street lights flashed
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and at last her fingers moved

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She awoke to a cacophony
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of electric and radio waves
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Pulsing rays of energy
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falling from outer space

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High in swaying towers,
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down in basements full of dust
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She could not escape the static
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or the sixty cycle hum

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She wore dark-tinted spectacles
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several fur-lined capes
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Three pairs of velvet gloves
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a veil of dotted swiss

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But all the Earth's vibrations
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still pounded through her ears
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So she packed a steamer trunk
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and flew a prop plane to Belize

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From there a log raft took her
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over raging waterfalls
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Deep within uncharted jungle
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where giant caterpillars crawl

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They spun their silk around her
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a cocoon beneath the trees
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And still she hangs there swaying
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deep within the dripping leaves

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Keeping time with every rumble,
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every quiver of the Earth
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And she slowly changes shape
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with the turning of the world

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