Chords with lyrics
(from the album Noble Beast by Andrew Bird)
Intro: E MajorE
A augmentedA
Comes and goes
D MajorD
Like in fits and dizzy spells
D MajorD
Like the weather
A augmentedA
And it blows
D MajorD
Like it knows what’s going wrong
D MajorD
Like it’s clever
D MajorD
Has a name, ohh
D MajorD
but the name goes unspoken
D MajorD
Weather vanes, ohh
E7E7
Were all twisted and broken
D MajorD
So soldier on, soldier on
D MajorD
Soldier on
D MajorD
Soldier on
D MajorD
Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
E MajorE
And muted screams of an old regime
E MajorE
And then oh
E MajorE
Something gets in it
E MajorE
The nightshade gets in it
E MajorE
We were all fast asleep
E MajorE
Were all so fast asleep
F# minorF#m
But you woke us
C majorC
You woke us from the strangest dream
BB
that an aubergine
E MajorE
could ever know
E MajorE
Would ever know
E MajorE
Would ee-ee-ee-ever know
(Whistling solo, play these chords…)
D MajorD
E7E7
D MajorD
Lava flows over crooks
D MajorD
and craggy cliffs to the ocean
F# minorF#m
And explodes in a steam
Dmaj7Dmaj7
heat fevered cyclical motion
D MajorD
Has a name
D MajorD
But the name goes unspoken
D MajorD
It’s in vain
E7E7
Cause the language is broken
D MajorD
So cast your own, cast your own
D MajorD
Cast your own
D MajorD
Soldier on
D MajorD
Soldier on, soldier on