Zero She Flies chords by Al Stewart

Chords with lyrics

BB
She's a mollusk
A augmentedA seamstress
A augmentedA princess
A augmentedA priestess
A augmentedA negress
She knows her position
E MajorE
She's a swallow
A augmentedA willow
A augmentedA cello
A augmentedA pillow
A augmentedA bow
And also a physician
F#F#       E MajorE
She takes your eyes
And mends your head
F#F#      E MajorE
She draws the wine
And breaks the bread
BB
She has no lies to tell you
And no truths to sell you
    A augmentedA
She's a girl
       BB
She's almost a woman

G+G           D MajorD      A augmentedA
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
E MajorE             BB
  Spreads her wings like a seagull
G+G
From the mountain he watches her
D MajorD     A augmentedA
Biding his time
E MajorE              BB
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle

(A augmentedA BB)

BB
He's a hawthorn
A augmentedA raven
A augmentedA scarecrow
A augmentedA haven
For moon-blessed thought and opinion
E MajorE
He will laugh like the fountains
The bones of the mountains
Lie deep in his forest religion
F#F#           E MajorE
You will call his name when evening falls
F#F#           E MajorE
And the ground sets hard and the night wind calls
BB
You will feed him and heed him
At times you will need him
A augmentedA      F#F#    BB
Say you were almost his woman

G+G           D MajorD     A augmentedA
And Zero she flies as the morning sighs
E MajorE              BB
   Spreads her wings like a seagull
G+G
From the mountain he watches her
D MajorD     A augmentedA
Biding his time
E MajorE             BB
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle

(BB)

BB
In the shuddering mad red blood-let sunset
A augmentedA tired man is leaving his cover
E MajorE
And the soft eyes of Zero
Are cut by the sounds
Of the vanishing feet of her lover
F#F#      E MajorE
And the door slams shut
And the air grows tight
F#F#        E MajorE
And her throat is gripped
By the hands of night
BB
And all that is left
Is the clock on the shelf
A augmentedA        F#F#    BB
As it ticks one day into another

G+G           D MajorD      A augmentedA
And Zero she sighs as the morning dies
E MajorE           BB
With the broken wings of a seagull
G+G                 D MajorD      A augmentedA
From the mountain he watches her, sensing his time
E MajorE              BB    B minorBm
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle

(A augmentedA BB)

BB
At the pall of the day the man of the mountain
Is nearing the end of his travel
       E MajorE
And the fence is down
On the westland bounds
And a footfall pounds in the gravel
F#F#          E MajorE
Comes a knock three times
And the air grows still
F#F#     E MajorE
As he steps inside from the sudden chill
    BB
And the moment is caught in the net of the night
A augmentedA       F#F#     BB
For the coming of dawn to unravel

G+G           D MajorD     A augmentedA
And Zero she flies as the morning sighs
E MajorE             BB
  Spreads her wings like a seagull
G+G
From the mountain he's coming
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Judging his time
E MajorE             BB
And his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
G+G          D MajorD      A augmentedA
Oh Zero she flies as the morning dies
E MajorE             BB
  Spreads her wings like a seagull
G+G
From her window he watches her
D MajorD      A augmentedA
A majorA man in his time
E MajorE           D MajorD     BB
But his eyes are the eeeyes of an eagle

Final A augmentedA BB