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Am Love bird, you flew into my window E Now in the sticky love nest sits a widow Am The tree it fell on all the people E Who gathered there to watch it topple Am-E-Am-E Am Now turn around, it's burning down Dm The city we live in C Should we mobilize? C Take them by surprise? F E Let them have their way with us? Am Wounds be by old enemies Dm Broke my heart to see C Foundations ripped apart C And investments fade away F E I guess we got off to a bad start C No oxygen Am What is the outcome? F Hungry humans G We've got to enslave them C We'll burn those bridges Am When we come to them F I'm not just their leader G I'm also one of them Am The food supply has been depleted E The river's run dry just when it was needed Am The rats come out to take it over E Singing, squeaking, "We built this city" Am It's hard to breathe Am But we couldn't leave Dm Nowhere left to go C Almost everybody died C Drank the tears from those who cried F E We shriveled from the sodium [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/i/islands/361120.html ] Am And a map was found with an X on it Dm So we followed it there C And what did we find C An underground design F E As we entered in to our surprise C Oxygen Am Rivers and playgrounds F The ancients just stayed down G They never stopped moving C We stumbled towards them Am But they locked all the barn doors F So we had to dig deeper G We had to dig deeper Am And the deep was dark E I wanted to sleep forever E Wake up later, maybe never Am We had to build a civilization E Let the planet focus on the planet's rotation Am We tried, we tried Am We really tried Dm But no one could do it C Not really alive C Never learned how to survive F E We were humans being useless C No oxygen Am What is the outcome? F Hungry humans G We've got to enslave them C We'll burn those bridges Am When we come to them F I'm not just their leader G I'm also one of them Am C We fade into oblivion C F Dm E No traces of civilized living eating the earth C We're fading to oblivion C F Dm E No traces of civilized living eaten by earth |