birds without wings — текст песни (gray david)

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 03:40:26 -0600
From: Tower Kountze
Subject: CRD: D/gray_david/birds_without_wings.crd

Birds Without Wings - by David Gray
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from the album A Century Ends (Caroline Records, 1993)
Transcribed by Tower Kountze

David Gray is an incredible songwriter with a great voice. He has three
CDs out,
but for some reason no one knows him. I would love to see more of his
work
transcribed here, especially his more difficult stuff.

It`s basically C and G with a slight variation on G (G*), and an A
thrown in toward the end.
(note: G* is just G played with your finger taken off the A string)

The Cords are C, G, G*, except for one part shown below, where an
A is thrown in when birds without wings is repeated

Wishing that something would happen
a change in this place
`cause I`m 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 out of step
in a changing time
hoist a new flag
hoist a new flag

Angry sun burn down
judging us all
guilty of neglect and disrespect
and thinking small
And death by boredom
and death by greed
if we can`t stop taking
more than we need

Across the fractured the landscape
I see the same things
tired ideas
birds without wings

[Change in chords: A, C, G]
Birds without wings
birds without wings

But these are just thoughts
on lackluster times
and I`ve no interest
in excuses you can find

Like you`ve had a hard day
now you`re too tired to care
now you`re too tired to care
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 too much looking back
without the courage
to give a new thing a chance
grounded by this ignorance

[Change in chords: D, Am]
When the cat comes
we`re just
[A, C, G]
birds without wings

Birds without wings
birds without wings