Fixed Positions chords by Andrew Bird

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

D MajorD

🎸 Verse 1:

     D MajorD        A augmentedA
When your position remains fixed, my dear

e     |    |    |    |
BB  0  | 0   | 0   | 0   |
G+G    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
D MajorD     |    |    |    |
A augmentedA     |    |    |    |
E MajorE 0  0 | 2 2  | 3 3  | 3 3  |

  E minorEm    Em/F#     Em/GEm/G
      Results can be mixed
I fear

     A augmentedA
There's a stasis


D MajorD        A augmentedA
No new ideas and no new faces
E minorEm  Em/F#     Em/GEm/G
 Misadventures and far flung places

e     |    |    |    |    |    |     |     |
BB     |    |    |    |    |    |    2 |    2 |
G+G  2  | 2   | 2   | 2   | 2  2 | 2  2 |  2   |  2   |
D MajorD    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    |    |     |     |
A augmentedA     |    |    |    |    |    | 0  0  | 0  0  |
E MajorE 2  2 | 2 2  | 1 1  | 1 1  | 0 0  | 0 0  |     |     |
  D/F#D/F#       Dm/F       A/EA/E        A augmentedA
  Don't get me wrong  It's not  dull


🎸 Chorus:

      D MajorD                  FF       E minorEm  A augmentedA
But if you stay here long enough
I feel we'll always be this way
       D MajorD                  FF        E minorEm  A augmentedA
And if you're screwing up your face, oh, won't it always stay that way? Always be this way
D MajorD     FF        E minorEm
 Will we always stay this way?

A augmentedA x4

🎸 Verse :

D MajorD              A augmentedA
 You know there really isn't much preventing

E minorEm     Em/F#     Em/GEm/G
The way you see the world cementing
     A augmentedA
There's a stony creeping
D MajorD            A augmentedA
 Cradle to grave or forever weeping
E minorEm       Em/F#     Em/GEm/G
Rounded on all sides, you're forever sleeping
D/F#D/F#    Dm/F       A/EA/E  A augmentedA
Promise to resist until you die (resist until you die)

D MajorD     FF        E minorEm
Promise to resist until you die

A augmentedA


🎸 Bridge:


DmDm         E MajorE               A augmentedA
  An object set in motion (object set in motion)
                DmDm
The arbiter of time (arbiter of time)
        E MajorE           A augmentedA
The unexpressed emotion (unexpressed emotion)
            DmDm
Capital crime (capital crime)
         E MajorE           A augmentedA
So pick a random number (pick a random number)
         D MajorD            G minorGm
Making sure it's prime (making sure it's prime)
       E MajorE       A augmentedA      DmDm     A augmentedA
Pick a random number between one and one hundred and nine



🎸 Verse :
(whistle solo)

D MajorD A augmentedA
E minorEm Em/F# Em/GEm/G
A augmentedA

D MajorD A augmentedA
E minorEm Em/F# Em/GEm/G
D/F#D/F# Dm/F A/EA/E A augmentedA

🎸 Chorus:

  D MajorD                    FF       E minorEm  A augmentedA
You stay here long enough and you know we'll always be this way
  D MajorD                        FF        E minorEm  A augmentedA
And when you're screwing up your face, oh, won't it always stay that way?
        FF                 FF       E minorEm
And when we're sheltering in place, oh, would we always be this way?
A augmentedA
Always be this way
D MajorD     FF        E minorEm      A augmentedA
 Will we always stay this way? (Will we always stay this way? Will we always stay this way)
D MajorD     FF        E minorEm      A augmentedA
 Will we always stay this way? (Will we always stay this way? Will we always stay this way)


🎸 Outro:
(strummed)

     D MajorD        A augmentedA
When your position remains fixed
E minorEm   Em/F# Em/GEm/G
Results can be mixed
         A augmentedA
I fear there's a stasis