Picture of a Bird Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G]
[D][C][Bb][C][G]

[Verse 1]
[G]Looking at
a pic[D]ture of a [G]bird
From a series of book[D]s about the sea
An[C]d t[D]he life above a[C]nd in it
Looking [Bb]at a picture o[C]f a bi[G]rd

[Verse 2]
[G]Staring out the win[D]dow[G]
Of an elevated [D]train in [C]a storm
Of blos[D]soms and [C]debris
Staring [Bb]out the wind[C]ow[G]

[Verse 3]
[G]Looking at [D]a jumble of words
[G]From something that
[D]you once wrote to me
[C]You said, [D]"I'll never [C]leave"
Still you're looking [Bb]at the jumble
[C][G]

[Verse 4]
[Em]
Everybody's gotten
their hearts [G]burnt[Em]
From the turnpikes to the
[G]mud roads[C]
They got nothing left to die [A]for[C]
And they got nothing left to run [D]from

[Interlude 1]
[G]
[D][G][D][C][D][C]
[Bb][C][G]

[Verse 5]
[G]Heading past [D]the ring [G]road
To the place where [D]you came
from [C]you see
It's not [D]your destiny
[C]Still you're heading pas[Bb]t
the ring [C]road[G]

[Verse 6]
[G]Looking into win[D]dows[G]
People got [D]their fires lit [C]today
[D]Gonna find your own [C]cave
Where you'll be looking [Bb]at a
Picture [C]of [G]a bird
Looking at a pic[D]ture of a bird

[Verse 7]
[G]
From a series of book[D]s
about [C]the sea
[D]And life [C]above [D]and [C]in
Looking [Bb]at a[C] pictu[Bb]re o[C]f

[Outro 1]
a bird
[G][D][G][D][C]
[D][C][Bb][C]