Passerine chords by The Oh Hellos

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A7sus4A7sus4
(it's played by a banjo-like instrument but that is the chord)

Verse 1:
A7sus4A7sus4              E minor 7Em7
Like carillon bells, the house of Augustus rings
Cadd9Cadd9                  G+G       A7sus4A7sus4
   With the echoing hymn of my fellow passerine, they took to it
                   E minor 7Em7
Like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle to an aerie
Cadd9Cadd9                      G+G
  And my god, it's getting hard to even hum a single thing

Chorus:
Cmaj7Cmaj7                Bm#5
You were the song that I'd always sing
       E minorEm             G+G
You were the light that the fire would bring
    Cmaj7Cmaj7                Bm#5
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
      E minorEm          G+G
Pushing the spear into your side again

Interlude:
A7sus4A7sus4 Cadd9Cadd9 x2


Verse 2:
A7sus4A7sus4                      E minor 7Em7
See, my birds of a kind, they more and more are looking like
Cadd9Cadd9               G+G
    Centurions than any little messiah
A7sus4A7sus4                   E minor 7Em7
And as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine
Cadd9Cadd9                   G+G
   I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind, but


Verse 3:
A7sus4A7sus4               E minor 7Em7
My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline
Cadd9Cadd9                       G+G
   From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream
A7sus4A7sus4                  E minor 7Em7
   Purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams
Cadd9Cadd9                        G+G
   It don't bring me relief, no it don't bring me nothing that

Chorus:
Cadd9Cadd9               Bm#5
You were the song that I'd always sing
        E minor 7Em7           G+G
You were the light that the fire would bring
   Cadd9Cadd9                Bm#5
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
       E minor 7Em7
Pushing the spear into your side again
   N.C
And again and again

Interlude:
A7sus4A7sus4 Cadd9Cadd9 x2


Bridge:
A7sus4A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, What am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord

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