As the Crow Flies - Will Varley
Capo: 3rd Fret
[Intro]
C C
[Verse 1]
C F C
When that bird fell from its nest,
Am F C
Me and my sister did our best,
Am F C
To feed it earthworms everyday,
Am F C
After school we watched it fly away,
[Verse 2]
C F C
And I miss my mother my old room and the sound of the rain
Am F C
As it fell on the rooftops and ran along the drains
Am F C
But sometimes it feels like an ocean that railway line
E F C
Sometimes it feels like we're living in darker times
[Verse 3]
C B F C
I'm heading back home for a couple of days
Am G F C
I can't imagine all that much has changed
Am G F C
See that town it moves with the colour of the sky
G F
There's a face I recognise
E C
As the crow flies
[Verse 4]
C F C
Well someone's opened up a cafe on the river's edge,
Am F C
I will go there in the summer rent some boats out, we said,
Am F C
Those kids grew up in the beat of the old bass drum,
E F C
From son to father, from father back to son,
[Verse 5]
C F C
That cat she used to run rings, always playing tricks on the dog,
Am F C
He'd be sitting in the kitchen rolling round all covered in mud,
Am F C
Now they're buried in the garden in the shadow of the hawthorn tree,
E F C
Farewell travellers, may your souls always be free
[Verse 6]
C B F C
Well we always get together this time of year,
Am G F C
Always wish I could tell them what they're waiting to hear,
Am G F C
But who said time moves in straight lines,
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At least I can say I tried,
E C
As the crow flies
[Verse 7]
C F C
She said "you're drinking too much, "I said, "yes I probably am"
Am F C
I find it easier to forget what I can't understand
Am F C
Like how all those snakes made it past the lions so fast
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And how the future turned so quickly into the past
[Verse 8]
C B F C
Now the cafe by the river's all boarded up,
Am G F C
There's an autumn wind blowing through the old horse chestnuts,
Am G F C
And I saw him in a dream, said "he's doing alright,"
G F
I can see him in your eyes
E G F
As the crow flies
E F C
As the crow flies
[Verse 9]
C F C
But sometimes it feels like everything's been done before,
Am F C
The same ideas and the same four chords,
Am F C
We're still leaving in the morning for to cross the sea
Am F C
Cos not everything has been done by me
[Verse 10]
C F C
I remember that boy in the fading August light
Am F C
We watched that fledgling bird take its first flight
Am F C
I hope that I have done you proud
Am F C
And I promise to wake up and fight
[Verse 11]
C B F C
On the roads that we travel on the oceans we sail,
Am G F C
In the jaws of the dragon in the belly of the whale,
Am G F C
Yeah I always keep you by my side
G F
We'll get old and we'll get wise,
E C
As the crow flies,
G F
Anywhere any time,
E C
As the crow flies
