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Passerine Approved

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Tone: [A7sus4]

Verse 1:

[A7sus4]Like carillon bells, the house of [Em7]Augustus rings

[Cadd9] With the echoing hymn of my fellow [G]passerine, they[A7sus4]they took to it

Like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle [Em7]to an aerie

[Cadd9] And my god, it's getting hard to even hum a [G]single thing

Chorus:

[Cmaj7]You were the song that I'd always si[Bm#5]sing

You were the [Em]light that the fire would b[G]bring

But I c[Cmaj7]can't shake this feeling that I was o[Bm#5]only

Pushing the [Em]spear into your side a[G]again

Interlude -x2-:

[A7sus4] [Cadd9]

Verse 2:

[A7sus4]See, my birds of a kind, they more and more are l[Em7]looking like

[Cadd9] Centurions than any little m[G]messiah

[A7sus4]And as I prune my feathers like leaves from[Em7]from a vine

[Cadd9] I find that we have fewer and fewer [G]in kind, but

Verse 3:

[A7sus4]My palms and fingers still reek of g[Em7]gasoline

[Cadd9] From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-[G]Greco-Roman dream

[A7sus4] Purifying the holy rock to melt the g[Em7]gilded seams

[Cadd9] It don't bring me relief, no it don't bring me [G]nothing that

Chorus:

[Cadd9]You were the song that I'd always [Bm#5]sing

You were the li[Em7]light that the fire would b[G]bring

But I [Cadd9]can't shake this feeling that I was [Bm#5]only

Pushing the s[Em7]spear into your side again

And again and again

Interlude -x2-:

[A7sus4] [Cadd9]

Bridge:

[A7sus4]When he comes a-knocking at my door