Cage The Songbird chords by The Low Anthem

Chords with lyrics

Cage The Songbird chords
The Low Anthem (Live at WFUV)

Capo III

G+G Gsus4Gsus4 G+G 2x

E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God cage the songbird
 G+G    E minorEm      D MajorD
Before the feathers run brown
E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God bar the windows
   E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G
That we may though hollow be sound

     E minorEm       C majorC        G+G
And this island shall be shackled to her waters
E minorEm     C majorC    D MajorD
Here we vow never to change
E minorEm      C majorC         G+G
Here we will stand at last for something
   E minorEm  D MajorD     G+G
With no desire to pretend

E minorEm     C majorC         G+G
Send up our prayers to gilded idols
      E minorEm       C majorC      D MajorD
With their names etched in heartwood of palm
  E minorEm     C majorC      G+G
And scatter the ashes of the contracts
   E minorEm     D MajorD    G+G
Their freedom so hollow a song

E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God cage the songbird
 G+G    E minorEm      D MajorD
Before the feathers run brown
E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God bar the windows
   E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G
That we may though hollow be sound

E minorEm G+G C majorC G+G E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm G+G C majorC E minorEm D MajorD G+G

    E minorEm         C majorC        G+G
Now the street lamp will be tethered to her station
    E minorEm     C majorC        D MajorD
As the poor man is tethered to the flesh
   E minorEm        C majorC        G+G
As a wise man will be tethered to his wisdom
    E minorEm    D MajorD        G+G
As the mother is tethered to her crèche

     E minorEm     C majorC        G+G
Was your hunger your awareness of salvation
    E minorEm     C majorC        D MajorD
As your chances go slipping to the past
    E minorEm       C majorC        G+G
Are you tortured by the changing of the seasons?
  E minorEm      D MajorD      G+G
And each grain of sand in the glass

E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God cage the songbird
 G+G    E minorEm      D MajorD
Before the feathers run brown
E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God bar the windows
   E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G
That we may though hollow be sound

E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God cage the songbird
 G+G    E minorEm      D MajorD
Before the feathers run brown
E minorEm G+G    C majorC
God bar the windows
   E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G
That we may though hollow be sound


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