Andrew Bird – Fixed Positions (Guitar)

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When your position remains fixed, my dear

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E  0   0  | 2  2   | 3  3   | 3  3   |

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            Results can be mixed, I fear

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There's a stasis

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No new ideas and no new faces

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  Misadventures and far flung places

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   Don't get me wrong...  It's not    dull

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But if you stay here long enough, I feel we'll always be this way

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And if you're screwing up your face, oh, won't it always stay that way? Always be this way

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  Will we always stay this way?

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  You know there really isn't much preventing

Em          Em/F#         Em/G
The way you see the world cementing

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There's a stony creeping

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  Cradle to grave or forever weeping

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Rounded on all sides, you're forever sleeping

D/F#       Dm/F             A/E    A
Promise to resist until you die (resist until you die)

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Promise to resist until you die

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   An object set in motion (object set in motion)

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The arbiter of time (arbiter of time)

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The unexpressed emotion (unexpressed emotion)

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Capital crime (capital crime)

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So pick a random number (pick a random number)

                 D                       Gm
Making sure it's prime (making sure it's prime)

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Pick a random number between one and one hundred and nine

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You stay here long enough and you know we'll always be this way

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And when you're screwing up your face, oh, won't it always stay that way?

               D                                 F              Em
And when we're sheltering in place, oh, would we always be this way?

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Always be this way

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  Will we always stay this way? (Will we always stay this way? Will we always stay this way?)

D         F                Em            A
  Will we always stay this way? (Will we always stay this way? Will we always stay this way?)

          D                A
When your position remains fixed

Em      Em/F#  Em/G
Results can be mixed

                 A
I fear there's a stasis