Passerine chords by The Oh Hellos

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
A7sus4
(it's played by a banjo-like instrument but that is the chord)

Verse 1:
A7sus4              Em7
Like carillon bells, the house of Augustus rings
Cadd9                  G       A7sus4
   With the echoing hymn of my fellow passerine, they took to it
                   Em7
Like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle to an aerie
Cadd9                      G
  And my god, it's getting hard to even hum a single thing

Chorus:
Cmaj7                Bm#5
You were the song that I'd always sing
       Em             G
You were the light that the fire would bring
    Cmaj7                Bm#5
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
      Em          G
Pushing the spear into your side again

Interlude:
A7sus4 Cadd9 x2


Verse 2:
A7sus4                      Em7
See, my birds of a kind, they more and more are looking like
Cadd9               G
    Centurions than any little messiah
A7sus4                   Em7
And as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine
Cadd9                   G
   I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind, but


Verse 3:
A7sus4               Em7
My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline
Cadd9                       G
   From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream
A7sus4                  Em7
   Purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams
Cadd9                        G
   It don't bring me relief, no it don't bring me nothing that


Chorus:
Cadd9               Bm#5
You were the song that I'd always sing
        Em7           G
You were the light that the fire would bring
   Cadd9                Bm#5
But I can't shake this feeling that I was only
       Em7
Pushing the spear into your side again
   N.C
And again and again

Interlude:
A7sus4 Cadd9 x2


Bridge:
A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, What am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord

A7sus4
When he comes a-knocking at my door
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord
A7sus4
When the cold wind rolls in from the north
Cadd9
What am I to do, what am I to do, oh lord