Seagull chords by Flight Of The Conchords

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse:
D
I'm tired of this place
                Em
I need to get away
A
It's time for me to go now
D
I can't stay
D
No no no no

I'm like a bird
                Em
I need to spread my wings
A

Fly over the ocean
                D7
See what the new day brings

Cause I'm a seagull
                D
Yeah

Verse Analysis:
D
(What the singer's trying to say here
Em7                     Em
Is that he's stifled in some ways
        A
Feeling hindered or

Imprisoned by his current situation
                D
And he uses the metaphor of being a seagull

Of wanting to be free)


Verse:
D
I wanna fly

Fly into the sky and
Em
Catch a summer breeze

Soar above the clouds
                A
And let my soul be free
                D
Yeah, cause I'm a seagull
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
I'm seagull


Verse Analysis:
                                                Em
(In the second verse he mentions a summer breeze
                        A
And I believe this is a construct

Allowing him to be free of his problems
                        D
Sees himself being untethered from
 D
He'd rather avoid responsibility
D
Or let something else take control
D
Of his destiny

And he sees that as similar to being a seagull)


Verse:
D
I can't stay here, I can't stay here
        Em
On this cold little rock

It's for me to go
                A7
Yeah, my mind's made up
                        D
It's the mind of a seagull
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
I'm a seagull, I got the mind of a seagull


Verse Analysis:
D
(In this verse he mentions a rock
                Em
I believe the rock represents you
        A
The person in the relationship with the singer
D
And by saying you're like a rock
D
He means that you're hard, cold and emotionally impenetrable
D
Unlike him, the freewheeling seagull)


Verse:
D
The tide is rising up
                        Em
The tide is rising, it's my time to go

And glide across the sky
                A
See the world below
                                        D
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I'm still a seagull
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
I'm, I'll always be a seagull


Verse Analysis:
                                        Em
(The image of the tide rolling in or rising up

Of course, represents the feeling of doom
A
A feeling of being drowned
                                                D
And that's what he thinks being in the relationship
D
With you is like)


Verse:

I need to leave this rock behind
                        Em7             Em
There's something more I seek
                        A                       A7
I wanna feel the warmth of the morning sun

Across my beak, yeah
                D
I'm a seagull
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
I've got a beak because I'm a seagull


Verse Analysis:
                                Em
(In the last two verses we've established that you are the rock
                                        A
The beak mentioned in this verse is clearly a phallic metaphor
                        D
It's obviously his cock

And he wishes to travel to more sexually abundant locations)


Bridge:
Em
I'm a seagull
        Em7                     Em  D
A seagull I will always be
Em
Dive into the ocean
                        D
Dip my beak into the sea
 D
Here we go now
D
La la la la

La la la la la la la
Em                              A
La la la la la...
A
La la la
        D7
I'm a seagull

Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
I've gotta lift this keyboard
                                Em
I've gotta lift it with my hopeless wings

Damn this feathered things, oh
A7
Oh, they're the curse
                        D
The curse of being a seagull
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D
(Not quite sure what he means here)

One day I've found this old piano
                                Em
Found it on this cold little rock
                                        A
Since that day I've been playing non-stop, yeah

'Cause I'm a piano
                        D
Piano-playing seagull
D
Yeah, yeah
D
Who sometimes shits on people

D


Verse Analysis:

(Oh, we'll have to re-evaluate
                                        Em
I think what he's actually trying to say is
                        A
Those aren't metaphors, he is actually a seagull
                                D
Sorry, it's not about a guy who wants to be like a seagull

It's an actual seagull)


Verse:
        D                   Em
I'm literally a keyboard-play-in' sea’bird
        D
But who also sings
        Em              Em
A keyboard-play-in' seagull
                                D
But play this piano with my wings
D
Oh, here we go now

La la la la la
Em
La la la la la
A
La la la la la

La la la la la...
        D
I'm a seagull
D
(He's literally a seagull)
D
La la la la la

Aghk, aghk
        Em                      A
La la la la la

Aghk, aghk
D
(He's actually a piano-playing seagull)
D


Piano solo:

(Literally mash random cluster chords)
N.C.
Oh, I wish I had some fingers
N.C.
Ah, damn this feathered things
N.C.
Damn
N.C.
Aghk
N.C.
Aghk
N.C.
Fuck
N.C.
Oh, now
D
La la la la la
Em                      A
La la la la la
        D
I'm a seagull
D
La la la la la
Em                      A
La la la la la
D
I'm a seagull
D
(Actually a seagull)