David Gray – Birds Without Wings (Guitar)

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Cadd9 – x32030 D2 – xx0230 G – 320003 C – 332010 G/A – 300003 Dadd4 – 554030 Em – 022000 A – x02220 D – xx0232 A* – x02223 Cadd9 G G/A (x2)

Cadd9                        G      G/A
Wishing that something would happen

  Cadd9                G  G/A
A change in this place

         Cadd9                          G  G/A
Cause Im tearing off the fancy wrapping

        Cadd9         G  G/A
Find an empty package

Cadd9                 G                 G/A
Take for a while your trumpet from your lip

Cadd9             G           G/A
Loosen your hold, loosen your grip

        C                  G            G/A
On your old ways that have fallen outta step

     Em            D  D2
In a changing time

Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag 

Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag

Cadd9 G C Dadd4 G

Cadd9            G    G/A
Angry sun burned down

Cadd9          G  G/A
Judging us all

Cadd9                 G    G/A
Guilty of neglect and disrespect

    Cadd9          G  G/A
And thinking small

***ORIGINAL VERSE***

Cadd9       G   G/A
Death by bordem

Cadd9          G  G/A
Death by greed      

      Cadd9     G G/A
If we cant stop taking 

Cadd9             G  G/A
More than we need

******************** ***ALTERNATE VERSE***

Cadd9             G        G/A                
Death by boredom, death by greed

      Cadd9            G            G/A
If we cant stop taking more than we need

C                     G       G/A
Watching the pages of history bleed

         Em             D  D2 
While we wash our hands

Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag 

Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag

*********************

       Cadd9                         G  G/A
Well, across the fractured landscape

  Cadd9               G  G/A
I see the same things

Cadd9       G  G/A
Tired ideas

Cadd9               G  G/A
Birds without wings 

A  C          G
Birds without wings 

A  C          G
Birds without wings

    Cadd9                   G  G/A
And these are just thoughts

    Cadd9           G  G/A
On lackluster times

    Cadd9           G  G/A
And Ive no interest

     Cadd9              G  G/A
In excuses you can find

            Cadd9          G  G/A
Like you've had a hard day

          Cadd9             G  G/A
Now you're to tired to care 

          Cadd9             G  G/A
Now you're to tired to care

         Cadd9           G  G/A
Oh you've had a hard day

       Cadd9                         G  G/A
Well, across the fractured landscape

 Cadd9                G  G/A
I see the same things

Cadd9        G         G/A
Tired ideas, broken values

Cadd9                        G           G/A
Many with the notion that to share is to lose

  Cadd9         G          G/A
A hollow people bound by a lack 

   Cadd9           G               G/A
Of imagination and to much looking back

C           Dadd4             G           Em
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance

Cadd9            G    G/A
Grounded by this ignorance

        D         C
And the cat comes

           A  C          G
We're just birds without wings

A  C          G         
Birds without wings

A  C          G
Birds without wings

      A*  C  G
Birds

A* C G