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 ******************** ***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 ********************* 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