David Gray - Birds Without Wings Ukulele

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  G  G/A (x2)

Cadd9                        G      G/A
Wishing that something would happen
  Cadd9                G  G/A
A change in this place
         Cadd9                          G  G/A
Cause Im tearing off the fancy wrapping
        Cadd9         G  G/A
Find an empty package
Cadd9                 G                 G/A
Take for a while your trumpet from your lip
Cadd9             G           G/A
Loosen your hold, loosen your grip
        C                  G            G/A
On your old ways that have fallen outta step
     Em            D  D2
In a changing time
Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag 
Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag

Cadd9  G  C  Dadd4  G

Cadd9            G    G/A
Angry sun burned down
Cadd9          G  G/A
Judging us all
Cadd9                 G    G/A
Guilty of neglect and disrespect
    Cadd9          G  G/A
And thinking small


***ORIGINAL VERSE***

Cadd9       G   G/A
Death by bordem
Cadd9          G  G/A
Death by greed      
      Cadd9     G G/A
If we cant stop taking 
Cadd9             G  G/A
More than we need

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***ALTERNATE VERSE***

Cadd9             G        G/A                
Death by boredom, death by greed
      Cadd9            G            G/A
If we cant stop taking more than we need
C                     G       G/A
Watching the pages of history bleed
         Em             D  D2 
While we wash our hands
Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag 
Cadd9       G    G/A 
Hoist a new flag

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       Cadd9                         G  G/A
Well, across the fractured landscape
  Cadd9               G  G/A
I see the same things
Cadd9       G  G/A
Tired ideas
Cadd9               G  G/A
Birds without wings 
A  C          G
Birds without wings 
A  C          G
Birds without wings

    Cadd9                   G  G/A
And these are just thoughts
    Cadd9           G  G/A
On lackluster times
    Cadd9           G  G/A
And Ive no interest
     Cadd9              G  G/A
In excuses you can find
            Cadd9          G  G/A
Like you've had a hard day
          Cadd9             G  G/A
Now you're to tired to care 
          Cadd9             G  G/A
Now you're to tired to care
         Cadd9           G  G/A
Oh you've had a hard day

       Cadd9                         G  G/A
Well, across the fractured landscape
 Cadd9                G  G/A
I see the same things
Cadd9        G         G/A
Tired ideas, broken values
Cadd9                        G           G/A
Many with the notion that to share is to lose
  Cadd9         G          G/A
A hollow people bound by a lack 
   Cadd9           G               G/A
Of imagination and to much looking back
C           Dadd4             G           Em
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
Cadd9            G    G/A
Grounded by this ignorance
        D         C
And the cat comes
           A  C          G
We're just birds without wings
A  C          G         
Birds without wings
A  C          G
Birds without wings
      A*  C  G
Birds

A*   C   G