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Lady Lamb The Beekeeper - Bird Balloons chords
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Artist: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Song: Bird Balloons (I nicked this from indieguitartabs.com and uploaded purely to use autoscroll, sorry!) Capo on 4. Standard tuning. N.B.: C, G and F chords are barred. *Riff* means this: |-----------------| |-----------------| |-----------------| |-----------------| |---------3b-0----| |-0-0-3-0---------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Am *Riff* F Em x4 Am F Em I'm a ghost and you all know it Am F Em I'm singing songs and I ain't slowing Am F Em It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it Am F G I picked the pieces up and put them in my pocket C G F And I ain't gonna try and win your heart this time C G F I've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiser C G F I'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired. C G F Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood C G F This is my loss of limb, my loss of love C G F Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood C G F This is my loss of limb, my loss of love *Riff* |--------------------| |-55555555-1111-3333-| |-66666666-2222-4444-| |-77777777-3333-5555-| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-55555555-1111-0000-| |-66666666-2222-0000-| |-77777777-3333-2222-| |---------------2222-| |--------------------| It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs almost escaping your skin to fly south, |----------------------------| |-55555555-11111111-00000000-| |-66666666-22222222-00000000-| |-77777777-33333333-22222222-| |-------------------22222222-| |----------------------------| F G south until the springtime Your hips stood out like confidence, you were naked as a newborn in the snow and you wanted it so. |----------------------------| |-55555555-11111111-00000000-| |-66666666-22222222-00000000-| |-77777777-33333333-22222222-| |-------------------22222222-| |----------------------------| [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/lady-lamb-the-beekeeper/367128.html ] F G That's precisely how you wanted it Am And now your love is writing words on the wall F with the meat of a nectarine G F G That she picked earlier that morning in the orchard Am And you are on the street, a chest of drawers free F While the skeleton parade marches past you G Carrying bird balloons F G They fly backwards and forwards Am F G The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary Am It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon F Em And it cast a filthy glow in the world and in my room C G F So how about I play the harp and you play that piano C G F pull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrows C G F My limbs, my love are lost on you C G F My limbs, my love belong to you. *Riff* |--------------------| |-55555555-1111-3333-| |-66666666-2222-4444-| |-77777777-3333-5555-| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-55555555-1111-0000-| |-66666666-2222-0000-| |-77777777-3333-2222-| |---------------2222-| |--------------------| I remember that night in the woods on the human balance beam |--------------------| |-55555555-1111-0000-| |-66666666-2222-0000-| |-77777777-3333-2222-| |---------------2222-| |--------------------| Made of a long wooden board |-----------| |-55555555--| |-66666666--| |-77777777--| |-----------| |-----------| F G with a barrel underneath We laid on either end and we couldn't quite knack it after many attempts and minutes of silence |--------------------| |-55555555-11111111--| |-66666666-22222222--| |-77777777-33333333--| |--------------------| |--------------------| F Until we did And our breath caught G and we looked up F G and the stars, they were so still F G and the stars, they were so still F G Both our hearts, they were revealed F G Our hearts, they were revealed C G F And you were my friend C G F This is my loss of love, my loss of limb You were my friend and now *Riff* Am F Em I'm a ghost and you all know it Am F Em I'm singing songs and I ain't stopping Am F Em My hair grew long so I fucking cut it Am and when you looked away F G I snuck those trimmings in your locket haha. Am F G x 3 Em F G #----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-----------------------------# # This represents the author's own work and interpretation of the # # song. To be used only for private study, scholarship, or research. # #--------------------------------------------------------------------#  |