Bird Balloons chords by Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

Artist: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
 Song: Bird Balloons


Capo on 4.

Standard tuning.

N.B.: C, G and F chords are barred.

*Riff* means this:
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Am  *Riff*  F  Em  x4

Am               F Em
I'm a ghost and you all know it
Am                  F Em
I'm singing songs and I ain't slowing
Am                       F Em
It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it
Am                       F G
I picked the pieces up and put them in my pocket
C                 G     F
And I ain't gonna try and win your heart this time
C                       G       F
I've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiser
C                  G      F
I'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired.
C                    G     F
Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
C              G    F
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love
C                    G     F
Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood
C              G    F
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love

*Riff*

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It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs almost escaping your skin to fly south,
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F        G
south until the springtime

Your hips stood out like confidence, you were naked as a newborn in the snow and you
wanted it so.
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F         G
That's precisely how you wanted it
Am
And now your love is writing words on the wall
          F
with the meat of a nectarine
        G      F       G
That she picked earlier that morning in the orchard
Am
And you are on the street, a chest of drawers free
      F
While the skeleton parade marches past you
     G
Carrying bird balloons
     F       G
They fly backwards and forwards
Am                       F  G
The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary
Am
It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon
    F             Em
And it cast a filthy glow in the world and in my room

C                G       F
So how about I play the harp and you play that piano
C             G        F
pull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrows
C           G F
My limbs, my love are lost on you
C         G F
My limbs, my love belong to you.

*Riff*

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I remember that night in the woods
on the human balance beam
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Made of a long wooden board
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F        G
with a barrel underneath

We laid on either end and we couldn't quite knack it after many attempts and minutes of silence
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F
Until we did
And our breath caught
    G
and we looked up
    F          G
and the stars, they were so still
    F          G
and the stars, they were so still
     F          G
Both our hearts, they were revealed
   F          G
Our hearts, they were revealed
        C      G F
And you were my friend

C              G    F
This is my loss of love, my loss of limb
You were my friend
and now

*Riff*

Am               F  Em
I'm a ghost and you all know it
Am                  F  Em
I'm singing songs and I ain't stopping
Am                  F  Em
My hair grew long so I fucking cut it
Am
and when you looked away
                    F G
 I snuck those trimmings in your locket
haha.

Am F G x 3
Em F G