Chord Booklet

Andrew Bird

10 songs|23 chords used|Hard

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Chords used

C/G

Fm7

F#m

F/A

Bbmaj7

Am7

Imitosis

Key: AmHard

C/G

Fm7

let ring

AmC/GFm7E

AmHe's keeping busyC/G, yeah, he's Fm7bleeding stoEnes

AmWith his maC/Gchinations and Fm7his palEindromes

AmIt was anyC/Gthing but hear the Fm7voice E

AmAnything but C/Ghear the voice Fm7 E

It was aAmnything but C/Ghear the voice

That Fm7says that we're alEl basicallyAm alonC/Ge Fm7 E

AmC/GFm7E

AmPoor Professor C/GPynchon had Fm7only good Eintentions

When he Amput his Bunsen C/Gburners all aFm7way E

And Amturning to a C/Gplayground in a Fm7Petri dish

Where Esingle cells would Amswing their fists

At C/Ganything that Fm7looks like easEy prey

In thisAm nature C/Gshow that Fm7rages everEy day

It was Amthen he C/Gheard his Fm7intuiEtion say

We were all basically aAmlone

And C/Gdespite what all his sFmtudies haEd shown

That what's misAmtaken for closeC/Gness is justFm7 a case for Emitosis

And Amwhy-C/G--- do Fm7some show nEo mercy whilAme others arC/Ge painfullFm7y shyE?

AmTell me doctor C/Gcan you Fm7quantifyE?

AmHe just wants to C/Gknow the rFm7easonE, the reason why

AmC/GFm7E

Why do they Amcongregate in C/Ggroups of four

Fm7Scatter like Ea billionAm spores

And let the C/Gwind just Fm7carry themE away?

AmHow can kids C/Gbe so mFm7ean?

Our famous Edoctor tried to Amglean

As he C/Gwent home at the Fm7end of thEe day

In thiAms nature C/Gshow that Fm7rages everEy day

It was Amthen he C/Gheard his Fm7intuiEtion say

We were all basically aAmlone

DesC/Gpite what all his sFm7tudies haEd shown

That what's misAmtaken for cloC/Gseness is just a Fm7case of Emitosis

AmSure fatal C/Gdoses of malFm7content through Eosmosis

And Amwhy-C/G--- do Fm7some show nEo mercy whilAme others arC/Ge painfullFm7y shyE?

Well, tell me Amdoctor, can you C/Gquantify?Fm7

E (strum louder)

The reason why

AmC/G

Fm7EAm

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Are You Serious

Key: EHard

AmDm

AmUsed to have just Dmone foot out the dAmoor

AmYeah, I alDmways wanted moCre

CI alwGays was the oCne

CYou thought would nEever marry

AmUsed to be wilDmlfully obtusAme

Am(or is the Dmword abstruseC?)

CSemantics Glike a noosCe

CGet out your dictEionaries

DmI'm gonna cut to the quEick

EThis is all non-fictiDmon

DmWords you beat with a sticEk

EThese are my true convictiE7ons

E7So tell me, Amare you seDmrious?

CAre you seGrious?

CCause every Gnight of your lCife

CYou'll fiEght for it

AmSo mysteDmrious

CHow imperGious!

CBut are you Gserious

BWhen it really comes down to iEt?

AmAmCC

AmDm

AmI see that you're Dmdown there and I'm up hAmere

AmYour boyfriend's gDmone to get a beCer

CLeaving usG crystal cleCar lines of Ecommunications

AmPromise me you Dmwon't avert your eAmyes

AmI drop my thirDmd-person in disguisCe

CYou know it'Gs time to do or diCe

CNo useless explanatioEns

DmI'm gonna cut to the quEick

EThis is all non-fictiDmon

DmWords you beat with a sticEk

EThese are my true convictiE7ons

E7So tell me, Amare you seDmrious?

CAre you seGrious?

CCause every Gnight of your lCife

CYou'll fiEght for it

AmSo mysteDmrious

CHow imperGious!

CBut are you Gserious

BWhen it really comes down to iEt?

CDmGC

CDmGCBE

AmDm

Fade Out

AmAre you seDmrious?

CAre you seGrious?

CCause every Gnight of your lCife

CYou'll fiEght for it

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Two Way Action

Key: DMedium

I've been Ddriving all Gnight

Bathing Din florescent Glight

Of a Dwestern TennesGsee gas Amstation

With a Dpack of two-way Gaction

I'm subDsisting on a Gfraction

And I Dclose my eyesG and preAmtend

I'm on CvaGcation

But the light bleeds Dthrough

And it's all Agreen-blue

There goes my imagination

My Dreturn fills me with Gdread

Will my Dhouse plants be all dGead

My siDgnificant be wGith aAmnother

I say ODK where was GI

But I Dcan't repress a Gsigh

And I Dthink I'm gonGna

Yeah I Amthink I'm gonna call my Cmother G

Let the subject Dwander

To issues of Ablonde hair

Or something or other

Like a bad Chaircut

Or a glass of cold Dwater

Some of the Cthings

You wouldn't ordinarily Dthought a

Will all be Clost if you let it Din

Maybe I'll Cnever ever feel it Dagain

DGDGDDAm

Instrumental (Guitar solo):

Alternate between D and G.

I've been Ddriving all Gnight

Bathing Din florescent Glight

Of a Dwestern TennesGsee gas Amstation

With a Dpack of two-way Gaction

I'm subDsisting on a Gfraction

Of what Dused to be a Gsugar-free

AmHalf-melted bag of TasCtationGs

That hard candy Dsensation

It's sweeping the Anation

And it Dputs my mind inG traction

I'm subDsisting on aG fraction

And I Dclose my eyesG and preAmtend

I'm on CvacatGion

But while it melts in my Dmouth

I'm still driving Asouth

In a TV Nation

Like a bad Chaircut

Or a glass of cold Dwater

Shouldn't I Csay what I really shouldn'tD oughta

You spend half a Cday in

Some of these Dplaces

Like a flash of white Clight

That's in front of our Dfaces

A state of periCstalsis or a parastaticD stasis

And we're off to the Craces

Oh Dyeah and we're off to theC races

DYeah and we're off to Cthe races

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Left Handed Kisses

Key: AHard

AI don't believe everything happens for a reasoAn A7

DTo us romantics out here, that amounts to high treasoDn

AI don't go in for your star-crossed loverAs A7

DIn the heart of a skeptic

There's a queGstion that still hovers near

CFor it bFegs the question

CHow did I eFver find you

CNow you got me wrFiting love songs

CWith a common refFrain like this one here,

CbaFby

CEmAm

AmAnd all your lFeft handed Ckisses

Were just preGlude Emto anotAmher

FPrelude to your bCack handed loGve EmsongAm,

FbabCy

CBut it beFgs a question

CHow did I eFver find you

CDrifting gFently through the Cgyre

Of the greFat Sargasso sCea, AtlanticF OceaCn F C

Got me wriFting love sonCgs F C

With a common refFrain like this one here

AmFCGEm

AmThe poiFnt your song here mCisses

Is that if you reaGlly loEmved Amme

AmYou'd risk moreF than a few 50 cent

CWords in your GbackhanEmded lAmove song

So it bFegs a question

CHow did I evGer fiEmnd yoAmu

Drifting geFntly through the gyCre

Of the grGeat SargEmasso sAmea, AtlantFic OceaCn G Em Am

AmThe poiFnt your song here miCsses

You got me wriGting lEmove sonAmgs

Is that you reFally love mCe

With a common refrGain likEme this one Amhere, here (Baby)

FIs prelude to Canother of your GbackhanEmded love soAmng

ANow it's time for a handsome little bookeAndA7

DNow it's time to tie up all the loose endDs

AAm I still a skeptic or did you make me a belieAveA7r?

DIf you hesitate, you'll hear the click of the receiver

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Roma Fade

Key: DmHard

F#m

See her Dmlight, how it reigns

So hard on your Amhigh plains

So you tBbake such Gmpains

That she won't Dmnotice you Am

And your Dmx-rays

Of your Paleo Amman

All gaze

How they Gmrest, and play

Slowly corDmrupting you

I Cwonder what the chance is you wanted Fto

CA thousand vacant stares Amwon't make it true

Make it true

GmYou need a witCness just to know you're Fthere F#m Gm

From the tips of your Cfingers, every strand of Fhair F#m Gm

You know someone's Cwatching you watching Fme watching you

And F#mall that we look upon Gm

You may not Cknow me but you feel my Amstare Am

And if she Dmsees you, it changes you

Rearranges your moAmlecules

And if you Bbsee her, it changes her

GmShe's a danger now, Dmafter school Am

And if she Dmsees you, it changes you

Rearranges your moAmlecules

And if you Bbsee her, it changes her

GmShe'll be seeing youDm after school

CHere's where gentlemen aFvert their eyes

CMaybe she's a gentleman Amin disguise

In disguise

BbYou need a witGmness just to know you're Fthere F#m Gm

From the tips of your Cfingers, every strand of Fhair F#m Gm

You know someone's Cwatching you watching Amme watching you

And Dmall that F#mwe look uponGm

You may not Cknow me but you feel F#mmy Am

stDmare

Short Instrumental

AmBbGmDmAm

And if I Dmsee you, how it Amchanges me

And if you Bbsee mGme, how it Dmchanges you

F#mChanges you

And if I Dmsee you, how it Amchanges mCe

And if you Dmsee mGme, how it Dmchanges you

AmChanges you

BbFAmBbGmDmAmBb

AmBb

GmDmAmDmGmF

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Eyeoneye

Key: BmHard

F/A

Bbmaj7

Am7

BmDBmDBmD

GGo ahead and congratulate yourself

Give yourself a hand,

The hand is yours

In the harden hoCurs, and so... G

And here it healCs itself, is too G

And you're getting too cClose G

You're getting too closeC G

You're getting too closeF/A to yourE soul

AmYou've done the impossibDle now

AmTook yourself apart D

AmMade yourself invulnerabDle

AmNo one can break your? D

(pause)

?heart so you break it yourself

GBringing your owCn, break it yourself

GBringing your owCn (oh break it yourself)

GBringing your owFn E

(during whistling)

AmDAmD

GGo ahead and reionize yourself

Give yourself a hand,

A hand is yours

And you go ahead and wriCng it out G

Go ahead and strCetch it out G

Go ahead and weaF/Ar it inside E

AmTake a trip in the deserDt makes this

AmBoy and girl too wise D

AmThrough a ridge of waterD and sand there's

AmA hundred stories high D

DAnd you re-eyeoneyeoneyeoneyeonize

And it's eyeoneyeoneyeoneyeoneyeoneyeoneBbmaj7ye B

CAll thisF time itBb took toG realize Am7

(pause)

That you could use some help

GBringing your heCart, breaking the shell

GBringing your heCart, (break it yourself)

G C G C (repeats and speeds up until the end)

Go ahead an defibrillate yourself

Give yourself a hand, a hand is yours

Go ahead and wear it out

And you go ahead and stretch it out

And you go ahead and wear it inside out

And it's eyeoneye-oneye-oneye

Woah

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Mx Missiles

Key: EmMedium

EmThose that would judAmge would sayEm you're aloof Am

But you Emknow the truth iAms a seedEm

You know what you need iAms a conflagratioDn

Cause when I sEmee the blood Am

And the Embits of your broAmken tooth

It gEmives me the Amproof that I neeEmd

It's the proof that you Ambleed

It's a rDevelation

Yeah it's a reveGlation, it's a revelatioD7n

GI thought you were a lifCe-sized paper doDll

GPropped up in the hardwaCre storeD

GPropped up on the front Clawn watching thDe parade

GOf those legionnaires with two-bCy-four'sD

As they're marching off to war Em

Yeah they're marching off to warD

EmI didn't know what you were madeG of

EmThe color of your blood, what you're afrGaid of

EmAre you made of calcium or are yGou carbon-based

EmAnd if you're made of calcium I'll have Gto take a taste

Cause, listen, cCalcium is deadly and tenGder to the tooth

And it's one surCe-fire way to know if you're MX-missile-Gproof, oh no C

Or if you're just aloDof

EmYou were in the ground in late November G

EmWhen the leaves and earth are damp G

EmDid you, did you think they would remembGer

EmHow you almost made state champ C

Cause when you're running for the game against Alfonzo G

And you Cfell upon the ground and chipped a toothG

Oh no, lCisten, it didn't really half surprise usG

To learn that you aren't really MX-missiDle-proof

GOh, I thought you were a life-sized paper doll D

GAnd you're propped up in the harCdware store D

GYou were propped up on the front lawn watching tDhe parade

GOf those legionnaires with two-bCy-four'sD

As they're marching off to war Em

Yeah they're marching off to warD7

GOh they're marchDing G

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Chemical Switches

Key: GMedium

G (pluck the open low E string then Hammer on into a Barre G to sound like the recording)

Whistling Bit

AmGF

GDmEm

AmGF

GFC

AmI keep hearing a Gvicious rumoFr

GFrom the back rooms, to theDm alleys, to the avenueEms

AmThat you lost yourG sense of humoFr

GAnd the first place youF look is the soCles of your shoes

And IAm watch these iGce fields meFlt into the sea

WaGrming you're oDmceans to cenEmturies

Will your Amsaline watGers briFng you back to me?

Oh the weGight is brFinging me tCo my knees

DmChemical swiCtches thGrown in the dFark

All it tGakes is a Dmspark to beCgin

And Dmcan you tell wChich is a oGne with a mFark?

That BlGeeds through the clDmothes to the sCkin

AmGF

GDmEm

AmGF

GFC

AmToo GlonFg I keep seGarching the aDmlleys and Emavenues

But it sAmeems I'm dGoing it wFrong

For I've sGeen neither hFide nor haCir of you

AmGF

GDmEm

AmGF

GFC

And it's a shFort short wCalk from peGbbles to brFicks

From stoGnes back to stFicks

We're lowGering the boiling point

And as tiDmme goes Cby, gets haGrder to Ffix

It's a volGatile mFix, like hydGrogen and oxCygen

DmChemical swiCtches thGrown in the dFark

All it tGakes is a Dmspark to beCgin

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Souverian

Key: GEasy

GThe bells will rDing, church steeple's catching fire G

GAnd if you promise sprinDg then I know you are a liar G

Cause in the sprCing, tender grasses won't burn easily G

The thrushes sinCg, still my lover won't return tGo me D

Wild parEmsnips they still scar my lungs, while thistles wDill burn my feet G

And if you join Dour Chorus, you'Gll never fear anDymore G

So here comeDs the ChorusG, we will meet oDn a fatal shore G

GCEmD

EmSouverian, souverian, the elder G

EmSouverian, souverian, the free G

EmSouverian, souverian, the felledG heart

EmSo very young, sCo very young were we G

GDGDG

Birds will singC, still my lover won't return to Gme

You promise spriCng, still my lover won't return Gto me D

Wild parEmsnips scar my lungs, and the thistles arDe burning my feet G

So here Dcomes the ChorusG, you will neverD fear anymore G

If you jDoin our GChorus, we will meetD on a fatal shore G

GCEmD

G?(for this section, I finger pick the bottom three strings,

playing eight counts and then the bottom string open for eight counts, alternating.

Feel free to find your own method!)

Under the elders, the older get younger

The younger get over, over their elders

And under the elders, pretend that you're older now

Under the elders, the older get younger

The younger get over, over the elders

Under the elders, bending your branches down

We were so very young, sCtill my lover won't return to meG

Thrushes singC, still my lover won't retuGrn to me D

Wild parEmsnips they still scar my lungs, while thistleDs still burn my feet G

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10.

Case In Point

Key: AmHard

AmI'm a breather, mail receiver

And I don't know where I stEmand

Not since someone informDmed me

That my house was built on sEmand

EmAnd it's not the earth beneath me

It's just the coDncept of the lanEmd

AmAnd I'm standing on the corner

When the buildings they all fEmell

If you blink once you're a gDmoner

Everything just Emgoes pell-mell

It's a real hardD sell

My conceptual heEmll

Not even good for kindliBmng, no

When the buildings they all fellEm

I'm a brDeather, mGail recDeiver G

EmBottom feeder juCst getting by Em

And you Cknow it's all just par for the cGourse

But you Cblame it on some non-existent forceG

EmOh yeah, of courCse

You know you canG't ride the concept of the horseC

But still I try

AmIn a cartoon desert landscape

EmWith a pair of ACME jetskates

AmFocused on my destination

EmI seem to have forgot my station

AmNow it's time to face the nation

CGDEm

AmAnd I'm riding to meet you

On a brown gray speckled maEmre

But there's something that unnerDves me

Like I'm riding on thin Emair

These futile doubts deseDrt me

Thinking no one really cEmares

AmAnd I'm jumping over fences

On this obstacle coEmurse

But it seems I'm getting nowhereD

On the concept of the hoEmrse

It's a real hardD sell

My conceptual heEmll

Not even good for kindliBmng

When the buildings they all fellEm

I'm a brDeatheGr, bottom fDeeder G

How many liEmters Cmust I imbibe Em

And you Cknow it's all just par for the courseG

But you Cblame it on some non-existent forceG

Oh yeah,Em of courCse

You know you canG't ride the concept of the horseC

But still I try

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