The Forest Awakes chords by David Byrne And St. Vincent

Intro:
Am C D Am7
Am C D Am7

Verse 1:
    Am
The Forest awakes
    C
The desert at dawn
  D
A mountain at night
        Am7
And the rhythm moves on

    Am
The people awake
        C
They're marching along
    D
The streets are alive
       Am7
With a terrible song

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

Instrumental:
Am C D Am7

Verse 2:
    Am
I'm marching along
    C
The street where you live
    D
I'm calling your name
    Am7
The song is a gift

    Am
The song is a road
    C
The road is a face
  D
A face is a time
      Am7
And a time is place

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

Solo:
G D Em7 Am
G D Em7 Am
G D Em7 Am

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

Am Am

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

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

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

Instrumental:
E E E E

Verse 3:
    Am
The forest is true
  C
I know for a fact
         D
That the bigger the front
         Am7
Then the bigger the back

   Am
My heart beating still
            C
Through the perilous night
    D
The bombs burst in the air
       Am7
But my hair is alright

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

Outro:
Am G C D C D G
Am G C D C D G