Zero She Flies chords by Al Stewart

B
She's a mollusk
A seamstress
A princess
A priestess
A negress
She knows her position
E
She's a swallow
A willow
A cello
A pillow
A bow
And also a physician
F#             E
She takes your eyes
And mends your head
F#            E
She draws the wine
And breaks the bread
B

She has no lies to tell you
And no truths to sell you
        A
She's a girl
              B
She's almost a woman


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

(A  B)

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

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

(B)

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

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

(A  B)

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

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

Final A  B