Birds Without Wings
David Gray
Birds Without Wings Cadd9 - x32030 D2 - xx0230 G - 320003 C - 332010 G/A - 300003 Dadd4 - 554030 Em - 022000 A - x02220 D - xx0232 A* - x02223 Cadd9 / (x2) Wishing that something would happen A change in this place Cause Im tearing off the fancy wrapping Find an empty package Take for a while your trumpet from your lip Loosen your hold loosen your grip On your old ways that have fallen outta step In a changing time Hoist a new flag Hoist a new flag Cadd9 Dadd4 Angry sun burned down Judging us all Guilty of neglect and disrespect And thinking small ***ORIGINAL VERSE*** Death by bordem Death by greed If we cant stop taking More than we need ******************** ***ALTERNATE VERSE*** Death by boredom death by greed If we cant stop taking more than we need Watching the pages of history bleed While we wash our hands Hoist a new flag Hoist a new flag ********************* Well across the fractured landscape I see the same things Tired ideas Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings And these are just thoughts On lackluster times And Ive no interest In excuses you can find Like you’ve had a hard day Now you’re to tired to care Now you’re to tired to care Oh you’ve had a hard day Well across the fractured landscape I see the same things Tired ideas broken values Many with the notion that to share is to lose A hollow people bound by a lack Of imagination and to much looking back Without the courage to give a new thing a chance Grounded by this ignorance And the cat comes We’re just birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds *