The Forest Awakes chords by David Byrne And St. Vincent

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD Am7Am7
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD Am7Am7

Verse 1:
  A minorAm
The Forest awakes
  C majorC
The desert at dawn
 D MajorD
A augmentedA mountain at night
    Am7Am7
And the rhythm moves on

  A minorAm
The people awake
    C majorC
They're marching along
  D MajorD
The streets are alive
    Am7Am7
With a terrible song

Chorus:
A minorAm     G+G      C majorC    D MajorD
Forward and backwards in every direction
  C majorC     D MajorD   G+G
The atoms' perpetual motion
  A minorAm     G+G      C majorC      D MajorD
The shifting of light on the banks of the river
  C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
I'm free, but I'm keeping my clothes on

Instrumental:
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD Am7Am7

Verse 2:
  A minorAm
I'm marching along
  C majorC
The street where you live
  D MajorD
I'm calling your name
  Am7Am7
The song is a gift

  A minorAm
The song is a road
  C majorC
The road is a face
 D MajorD
A augmentedA face is a time
   Am7Am7
And a time is place

Chorus:
 A minorAm     G+G     C majorC     D MajorD
A augmentedA place of relief in a time of confusion
 C majorC     D MajorD    G+G
A augmentedA heart is a simple equation
   A minorAm    G+G       C majorC     D MajorD
With beautiful words and with beautiful people
 C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
A augmentedA song is a face, is a mountain

Solo:
G+G D MajorD E minor 7Em7 A minorAm
G+G D MajorD E minor 7Em7 A minorAm
G+G D MajorD E minor 7Em7 A minorAm

Bridge:
A minorAm
A augmentedA fruit that falls before it's grown
G+G
I heard a sound and a bird has flown
A minorAm      G+G    C majorC    D MajorD
It breaks to pieces above the forest
A minorAm    G+G     C majorC   D MajorD
A augmentedA million particles born today

A minorAm Am

B minorBm
Out beyond the blue horizon
B minorBm
Air cannot escape
F# minorF#m
Underneath the weeping willow
F# minorF#m
I can see your face

D#D#
Free-form calling all over me
D#D#
Creatures great and small
FF
Doctors pulling them out of you
FF
Hideous, virtuous, both of us

F# minorF#m
Come in my kitchen
F# minorF#m
When it rains outside
G# minorG#m
Sweet inspiration
G# minorG#m
Sneaks up from behind

Instrumental:
E MajorE E E MajorE E

Verse 3:
  A minorAm
The forest is true
 C majorC
I know for a fact
     D MajorD
That the bigger the front
     Am7Am7
Then the bigger the back

  A minorAm
My heart beating still
      C majorC
Through the perilous night
  D MajorD
The bombs burst in the air
    Am7Am7
But my hair is alright

Chorus:
  A minorAm     G+G      C majorC       D MajorD
The shifting of light on the trees and the houses
 C majorC       D MajorD    G+G
I drowned in an ocean of perfume
  A minorAm       G+G       C majorC       D MajorD
The strangeness of words, how the meaning keeps changing
  C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
But somehow the beauty will find you

Outro:
A minorAm G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
A minorAm G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G