Birdie chords by Father John Misty

Chords with lyrics

In standard Tillman fashion, this song's acoustic lead is performed on a guitar
tuned down an entire step to DGCFAD tuning, sometimes referred to as 'D Standard.'

If you've never tuned down to 'D Standard' before, this video will get you started:
Simply listen and twiddle as it goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVMuojEWo_w

Strumming pattern and exact timings of the sus4 hammer-ons etc.
can all be found by intensely studying Josh perform the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3XBqVUj7fM

Chords used:
G7: x02020
G7sus4: x02030
C9: x5545x
F: 3x0003
Fsus4: 3x0013
A#7: x3535x
A#dim: x4535x
Cm: xx0231
Cm/A#: x30031

Intro:
G7G7 G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9 FF Fsus4Fsus4 FF

G7G7       G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9 FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Take off, little winged creature
         G7G7       G7sus4G7sus4
It's nothing but teens in ravines
  C9C9           FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
And antics on concrete down here
      G7G7      G7sus4G7sus4   C9C9             FF Fsus4Fsus4 FF
And are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe?
          G7G7         G7sus4G7sus4   C9C9  FF  Fsus4Fsus4   FF
Let me tell you why some day, Birdie, you're gonna envy me

F#7A#7       A# diminished A#dim      C minorCm Cm/A# FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Some dream of a world written in lines of code
         G7G7       G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9
Well, I hope they engineer out politics, romance, and edifice
     FF        Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Two outta three ain't bad
F#7A#7       A# diminished A#dim       C minorCm   Cm/A# FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Some envision a state governed by laws of business
G7G7           G7sus4G7sus4   C9C9
Merger and acquisition instead of violence or nations
     FF      Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Where do I sign up?

G7G7       G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9 FF   Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Take off, little winged creature
         G7G7    G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9             FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
It's nothing but falling debris, strollers, and babies down here
        G7G7     G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9            FF       Fsus4Fsus4  FF
And you may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide
       G7G7     G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9
What with all our best attempts at transcendence
      FF       Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Something's bound to take

   F#7A#7       A# diminished A#dim      C minorCm   Cm/A#   FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Soon, we'll live in a global culture devoid of gender or race
       G7G7
There's just one tiny line:
 G7sus4G7sus4   C9C9
You're either born behind
         FF      Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Or you're free to peek inside
F#7A#7        A# diminished A#dim   C minorCm  Cm/A# FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Life as just narrative, metadata in aggregate
     G7G7      G7sus4G7sus4 C9C9
Where the enigma of humanity's wrapped up finally
       FF      Fsus4Fsus4   FF
That as they say is that

       C minorCm    Cm/A# FF   Fsus4Fsus4  FF
Oh, that day can't come soon enough
   C minorCm  Cm/A# FF  Fsus4Fsus4  FF
It'll be so glorious
     C minorCm   Cm/A#      FF    Fsus4Fsus4  FF