Artist: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
Song: Bird Balloons
(I nicked this from indieguitartabs.com and uploaded purely to use autoscroll, sorry!)
Capo on 4.
Standard tuning.
N.B.: C, G and F chords are barred.
*Riff* means this:
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Am *Riff* F Em x4
Am F Em
I'm a ghost and you all know it
Am F Em
I'm singing songs and I ain't slowing
Am F Em
It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it
Am F G
I picked the pieces up and put them in my pocket
C G F
And I ain't gonna try and win your heart this time
C G F
I've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiser
C G F
I'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired.
C G F
Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
C G F
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
C G F
Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
C G F
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
*Riff*
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It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs almost escaping your skin to fly south,
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F G
south until the springtime
Your hips stood out like confidence, you were naked as a newborn in the snow and you
wanted it so.
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F G
That's precisely how you wanted it
Am
And now your love is writing words on the wall
F
with the meat of a nectarine
G F G
That she picked earlier that morning in the orchard
Am
And you are on the street, a chest of drawers free
F
While the skeleton parade marches past you
G
Carrying bird balloons
F G
They fly backwards and forwards
Am F G
The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary
Am
It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
F Em
And it cast a filthy glow in the world and in my room
C G F
So how about I play the harp and you play that piano
C G F
pull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrows
C G F
My limbs, my love are lost on you
C G F
My limbs, my love belong to you.
*Riff*
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I remember that night in the woods
on the human balance beam
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Made of a long wooden board
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F G
with a barrel underneath
We laid on either end and we couldn't quite knack it after many attempts and minutes of silence
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F
Until we did
And our breath caught
G
and we looked up
F G
and the stars, they were so still
F G
and the stars, they were so still
F G
Both our hearts, they were revealed
F G
Our hearts, they were revealed
C G F
And you were my friend
C G F
This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
You were my friend
and now
*Riff*
Am F Em
I'm a ghost and you all know it
Am F Em
I'm singing songs and I ain't stopping
Am F Em
My hair grew long so I fucking cut it
Am
and when you looked away
F G
I snuck those trimmings in your locket
haha.
Am F G x 3
Em F G