Xavier Rudd – Morning Birds (Guitar)

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46 years old and I'm feeling all alone

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though I'm surrounded by good people all the time

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I run like I'm on fire, though my knees are getting tired

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and my body keeps reminding me to slow

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I preach what's on my mind, in my heart, in my dream time

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but don't be fooled, not pretending I know

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Life keeps rolling by and all we can do is try

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and send out love, even when it hits a stone

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Close my eyes and see, your face is staring back at me

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and your smiles make me vulnerable, make me feel weak at the knees

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And if I was a tree, you'd be the gentle breeze

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and we'd sway with the morning birds

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watch the sun rise in the east

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completely free

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Phoenix, Arizona, the pavement is on fire

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and a man just died before my eyes

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The meth has taken hold of so many poor young souls

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and they're buzzing around these streets like flies

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And each city that we roll seems to be the way things go

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kind of like a spectacle for traveling eyes

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Old woman in a tent, spreading jam on a piece of bread

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living amongst it, just somehow left behind

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And I close my eyes and see, your face is staring back at me

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and your smiles make me vulnerable, make me feel weak at the knees

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And if I was a tree, you'd be the gentle breeze

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and we'd sway with the morning birds

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watch the sun rise in the east

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completely free

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Inside I'm still a boy, still fumbling the ball

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still reaching for the safest place I know

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Overwhelmed by all the pain I see in the world today

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making sense of nonsense every day

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When I hold those little hands, makes me feel like I'm a man

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makes me vulnerable and fragile all the same

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Departure from my grief, that little place where I feel free

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my little island, oasis in the sea

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And I close my eyes and see, your face is staring back at me

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and your smiles make me vulnerable, make me feel weak at the knees

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And if I was a tree, you'd be the gentle breeze

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and we'd sway with the morning birds

          Am              D
watch the sun rise in the east

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completely free