When a Powerful Animal Comes chords by The Mountain Goats

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Verse 1

(One, two, one, two, three)

Verse 2
Am 
Em 
C 
G 
F 
We move by night
Am 
Cover our tracks   well,
Em 
C 
G 
D 
and we  pack light
Am 
Follow the shoreline 'til we've
C 
F 
G 
run clean out of land
Dm 
Am 
C 
Speak in gestures only we
Dm 
G 
F 
can under stand
Dm 
We've made mistakes
D 
Dm 
D 
F 
Am 
Everyone spots their own
C 
D 
mess when the dawn breaks

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Verse 3

We get so exhausted

Lost kids, just wasted

Sleep in short shifts and then

rise up to our feet

Life is short, and life is hard,

and life is sweet

Verse 4

The treeline shakes

We roll hard along some long odds

when the dawn breaks

Verse 5

See soft peaks off in the distance

Those people in the mountains

They will never know what hit them

Verse 6
F 
G 
Em 
F 
C 
G 
F 
We shed dead weight
A 
C 
It gets pretty hard to
G 
D 
concentrate
Am 
Practice our prayers until some
C 
G 
small hope crystallizes
F 
G 
Dm 
Am 
Follow the shoreline 'til
C 
G 
some better hope arises
F 