WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Josh Pyke - Buttons Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
Am Bm C D
[Verse 1]
Am Bm C
In my mind, not enough birds have died
D Am
In the shadow of this once cast stone
Bm C
And I'm not unwell, but I am ill at ease
D Am
With all the buttons still left to sew
Bm C D Am Bm
Through needles eyes, see me sharper than I see myself
[Refrain]
G D Am C
So you should stitch me in to stop me from bleeding
[Verse 2]
Am Bm C
And education can be fickle I think
D
Sometimes the more you learn
Am Bm C
The more you lose a sense of what you think you know
D Am
About all the buttons still left to sew
Bm C D Am Bm
And I'm outside myself more and more these days
[Refrain]
G D Am C
So you should stitch my skin to stop me from bleeding
Am
All over this fresh song and I
Em
Acknowledge all the corners
G D Am C
And all the freshly painted walls, that bear no former scars
Am
Since they're patched up and over now
Em
But I was born of miners
G D Am C
And I'm designed to chip away, tunnel into the dark
[Chorus]
C G D
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Am Bm C
I don't know
G D Am
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
Bm C
Sharks below
G D
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Am Bm C G/F#
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Bridge]
Em G
But every now and then a tempest blows
Em B7
And the veneer I keep becomes unsewn
C G
But will you ever read me well?
C
I can only assume so
Em G
And I'm buoyant like a flotsam man
Em B7
Relegated by the waves to land
C G
They dry me like a brittle bone
C Am C G D Em G/F#
Paraded like a polished stone
[Chorus]
C G D
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em G/F# C
I don't know
G D Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
G/F# C
Sharks below
G D
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em G/F# C G D Em G/F#
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Chorus]
C G D
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em G/F# C
I don't know
G D Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
G/F# C
Sharks below
G D
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em G/F# C G D Em
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
G/F# C G D Em
And that's what you ought to know
G/F# C G D Em G/F# C G D Em
I'd see them smashed on the reefs below