Bird In A Basement Chords
by Paul Dempsey
Bird In A Basement by Paul Dempsey is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, G, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-1-1-1-1---1-1----1-1------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-2-2-3-2---2-2p0--0-0h2----------------------------------------------------|
A|-3-3-3-3---3-3--0-3-3------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Fill/Outro
e|-1--3-----0----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3--3--1--0--1p0--1--------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2--2--2--0-------2--------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------2--0-------3--------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------2-------3--------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------3-------1--------------------------------------------------------|
Intro
C
Hey living thing, buy me a drink
F Am G
and drive me out to the airport
C
give me two hundred dollars and say
F Am G
the best thing anyone's ever said
C
if you steal every word, from your grandmother's purse
F Am G
and lay them out on the dashboard
C F C F Am G
we'll be fine...
C G C F Em F
we'll be fine.
C
Hey living thing, if you're turning in
F Am G
I'll wake you when something changes
C
then I'll ring all the bells again
F Am G
and you'll spill champagne in my shoes
C
We'll make rose-coloured smoke
F Am G
from bad horoscopes, confetti from news pages
C F C F Am G
and you'll be mine...
F
you'll be mine.
C G C F
and the same heart attack
Em F G F C
will keep feeding back
G C F
right under the street
Em F G F G
skipping every other beat
Fill/Outro
(Hey living thing, let me in to the world you live in)
C F Am G x2
C
Hey living thing, you've waited for it
F Am G
for billions counting backwards
C
like a dog on a fire escape,
F Am G
like a bird in a basement
Am
Now release your breath from its paper bag
Em
and no matter what you hear
F
if green lights should rain down tonight
Dm G
it means tomorrow's another year
C G C F
The same heart attack
Em F G F C
will keep feeding back
G C F
right under the street
Em F G F G
skipping every other beat
Dm Am
Hey living thing, you're breathing again
G F C
you're breathing again
End on:
Fill/Outro