Calexico - Woven Birds

      

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 Calexico - Woven Birds

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 Album : Feast Of Wire (2003 )
 Tempo : 3/4 144
 
 F/A : x0321x
 Bm/D : x5443x
 Chorus Riff :

 e|--------------------------|
 B|------------8-------------|
 G|---------------10-9-7-----|
 D|--7--9--10----------------|
 A|--------------------------|
 E|--------------------------| 
 

 
 Intro :
 F/A 
  
 F/A                     
 The plaza in the village
       G                         
 Where mission bells used to ring
    F                                    F/A 
 Is now crumbled to a pile of stench and ruin
 
 Even the swallows have vanished
     G                         
 no longer return in the spring
         F                               F/A  
 All the blossoms are buried ,'neath the waste
 
 G                             
 Out of the shadows grow hatred
           F                   
 Along the corridor crawls fear
 G                             
 Crushed by the promise of hope
              F/A   
 That never returned
 
 Bm/D           A#                
 Watched with a hawk's trained eye
 
 (Chorus)
 Am    Em   C  G   Dm   
 Trees grow silent fruit
 Am    Em C   G     Dm 
 'neath a suffering sky
 
 F/A                                
 Those who have stayed, keep a flame
 In memory of the fallen
 And pass on the old rites despite the risk
 But many more have left here
 On mended broken wings
 
 F/A                         
 Turning to see your reaction
   G                       
 A tear drop fills your eye
     F                                    
 But you protest not to give up as give in
 F/A                              
 Heading straight for the wreckage
 G                            
 Picking up a shovel and a hoe
       F                              F/A 
 Start putting back the bricks one by one
 
 G                               
 Numbers come out of the woodwork
 F                         
 Curious to see the rebirth
 Bm/D      A#            
 Above the swollen clouds
 
 (Chorus)
    Am     Em    C     G   Dm 
 A strange sound fills the air
   Am Em   C  G  Dm   
 A silence never heard
 Am  Em  C    G       Dm  
 Falling like blessed rain
 F/A                    
 And the swallows return