Chords
Bird In A Basement

Key: C

Introduction:

difficulty
easy |||||
 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

 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
Fill/Outro