Masterswarm chords

Andrew Bird

Key: 

Simplify chords 

  			

Intro: Em 

Em 
Come what may.  Lay your eggs where it's warm 
              G 
Come here to swarm 
Em 
Come by sea.  Swarm like smoke in the dawn 
             G    G/F#              G7          C 
We were the young ---  We were the swarm.  radiolarians 
           Ab                   Gm/Bb               Gmsus2/A                
Midges and moths.  Cut from the cloth   We were the young 
             G (just the note) 
We were the swarm 

Break: Am  Ab Bm  Am  Ab Bm 

Am                                           G 
Flailing fetal fleas       feeding from the arms of the master 
Am                                     G 
Burrow into me         This is sure to misspell disaster 
           Am 
Oh and the young in their larva state orchestrating plays 
                    G 
investments of translucent alabaster 

Break: Dm  C  Em  F 

        C 
So they took me to the hospital 
            C/B 
They put my body through a scan 
          C/Bb 
What they saw there would impress them all 
     F 
for inside me grows a man 
    Fm 
he speaks with perfect diction 
      Eb 
as he orders my eviction 
      Dm7                            Gm 
as he acts with more conviction than I, I ,I 

Break: Am  Ab Bm  Am  Ab Bm 

Am 
Oh burrow into me 
                G 
this is sure to misspell disaster 
Am 
Oh burrow into me 
                 G 
feeding from the arms of the master 

Break: Dm  C  Em  F 
C  C/B  C/Bb  F  Fm  Eb  Dm7  Gm 

            Bb                 F 
We were the young    We were the swarm 
            F7            Am 
We were the young    Radiolarians 
            Am                   G 
We were the young    We were the swarm 
            C#7           Bm 
We were the young    Radiolarians 
            Bm                   A 
We were the young    We were the swarm 
            A7            C#m 
We were the young    Radiolarians 

C#m 
Come what may, come what may, come