Fixed Positions chords by Andrew Bird

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

D

🎸 Verse 1:

          D                A
When your position remains fixed, my dear

e         |        |        |        |
B    0    |  0     |  0     |  0     |
G       0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
D         |        |        |        |
A         |        |        |        |
E  0   0  | 2  2   | 3  3   | 3  3   |

   Em       Em/F#          Em/G
            Results can be mixed
I fear

          A
There's a stasis


D                A
No new ideas and no new faces
Em   Em/F#          Em/G
  Misadventures and far flung places

e         |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |
B         |        |        |        |        |        |       2 |       2 |
G    2    |  2     |  2     |  2     |  2   2 |  2   2 |   2     |   2     |
D       0 |      0 |      0 |     0  |        |        |         |         |
A         |        |        |        |        |        | 0   0   | 0   0   |
E  2   2  | 2  2   | 1  1   | 1  1   | 0  0   | 0  0   |         |         |
   D/F#              Dm/F              A/E               A
   Don't get me wrong    It's not    dull


🎸 Chorus:

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

A x4




🎸 Verse :

D                           A
  You know there really isn't much preventing

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

D          F                Em
Promise to resist until you die

A


🎸 Bridge:


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




🎸 Verse :
(whistle solo)

D A
Em Em/F# Em/G
A

D A
Em Em/F# Em/G
D/F# Dm/F A/E A

🎸 Chorus:

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


🎸 Outro:
(strummed)

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