Marcus Mumford - Cannibal

[Intro] [pluck strings 4,3,2 until halfway through the bridge]
C/E F C/G C/G
C/E F C/G C/G

[Verse 1] [4,3,2]
C/E F C/G
I can still taste you, and I hate it
C/E F C/G
That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it
F Am C/G
You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw
F Am C/G
Ripped it in with your teeth and your lips like a cannibal
C/G C/G
You fucking animal

[Verse 2] [4,3,2]
C/E F C/G
I can still taste you, and it kills me
C/E F C/G
That there’s still some sick part of it that thrills me
F Am C/G
That my own body keeps betraying me
F Am C/G
There is such power there, it may destroy me
C/G
But it compels me

[Chorus] [4,3,2]
F
Of course I deny it
Am
Can hardly believe it
C
Dismiss or demean it
F C/E
Cause I know I can’t speak it

[Verse 3] [4,3,2]
C/E F
But when I began to tell
C/G
It became the hardest thing
C/G
I ever said out loud
C/E F C/G
The words got locked in my throat
C/G
Man, I choked
F Am C/G
And this is what it feels like to be free
F Am
Even though it follows back down
C/G
Stares into the dark with me

[Chorus] [4,3,2]
F
Even then I deny it
Am
Can hardly believe it
C
Dismiss or demean it
F C/E
But I know I must speak it

[Bridge] [4,3,2 to start]
Am G6 C
If I could forgive you now
Fsus2 C G6 Am
Release you from all of the blame I know how
Am G6 C
If I could forgive you now
Fsus2 C G6 Am
As if saying the words will help me know how

[Still the bridge]
[Switch to plucking strings 3,2,1 for the rest of the song – thumb still plays the bass]
[Except: on the Dm/F ONLY, pluck 4,3,2]

F/A C/G F/A C/E Dm/F F/A
To begin again
C/G
Help me know how
F/A
To begin

[Instrumental]

C/E F C/G C/G
C/E F F/A

[Outro]
C/G F/A
Help me know how
C/E F F/A
To begin again
C/G F/A
Help me know how
C/E F C/G
To begin again
C/E F C/G
Begin again
C/E F F