World in a Wall
By Martin Tielli
Transcribed by Tim Allard


guitar tuned down 2 steps
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                   C
The X has moved out.
             Em
Out of this house
                       F
(in)to the outside around it.
                         D5
I watched her feet pound it.
                  C
It didn't work out.


C
First there's a click,
                    Em
then there's a breeze
                            F
somewhere outside in the trees,
                          D5
and the bathroom just sits
                                         C
with the memories of a million shits.


Em      F         D5


                      C
There's a world in a wall
                   Em
that's dark and it's small.
                          F
Here gathers the mighty dust ball
                         D5
on a pink fiberglass bed

                      C
for the screwdriver left there.
                     Em
The mite and the spider.
                      F
The multi legged wonder
                         D5
that last week had scared her
                                                 C
and broke our silence with laughter.


Em     F           D5


         C
She's like a mouse,
                Em
I know she's around.
                 F
It's a gnawing sound.
                        D5
Leaves little brown poohs
                    C
from a little pink bum.
                Em
Inside the closet.
              F
Around the files.
             D5
Behind the crates.
                                  C
She's barely adolescent.
             Em
Up on the counter -
                  F
that's where I caught her -
                   D5
little pink tongue
          C
licking the butter.
                       C
There's a world in a wall.
                 Em
The mighty dust ball.
                      F
The mouse and the spider
                   D5
pause by each other
                C
and move on.