The Handsome Family – Birds You Cannot See (Guitar)

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From the album Twilight [INTRO] C [VERSE 1]
           F            C
There are birds in the darkness 

      G               C    C/B
who douse electrical fires

  Am  
Flaring up in nursing homes 

         G
and the bedrooms of blind men

 C         F      C
Birds you cannot see
[VERSE 2]
           F            C
There are birds in the darkness 

     G               C    C/B
who nest in wooden crutches

 Am  
Eye-patches and bandages, 

  G
broken spinal columns,

 C       F         C
pots of withered plants
[CHORUS]
 F                C
Birds you cannot see, 

 G              C
filling every tree, 

 G               C
falling out of closets 

     F              C        G     C
and perched on the hands of dying men
[VERSE 3]
           F            C
There are birds in the darkness 

     G                  C        C/B
who lead lost dogs off highways

  Am
Steer boats past icebergs, 

       G
save children stuck in wells

 C         F      C
Birds you cannot see
{VERSE 4]
           F            C
There are birds in the darkness 

 G                  C    C/B
seen by those with tumors

 Am 
circling common light bulbs 

       G
with blue feathered halos

 C        F       C
and the sound of rain
[CHORUS]
 F                C
Birds you cannot see, 

 G              C
filling every tree, 

 G               C
falling out of closets 

     F              C        G     C
and perched on the hands of dying men