Coldplay – Birds


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Intro:  
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Fmaj7 
 
 
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Been standing in the corner, studying the lights
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Fmaj7  
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The dreaming of escape will keep you up at night
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But someone had put the flares up, and got me in the rays
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So-o-o-o I guess I'
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better stay – ‘uh uh, no come on’ you say

Fmaj7 Gadd4

 
It’s  
A 
fool’s gold thunder, it’s just  
A 
warring 
 
rain
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Don’t let the fears just start ‘what if – I won’t see you again’
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Around here you never want to sleep all night
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So start falling in love, start the riot and

 
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Come on rage with me
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We don’t need words, and we’ll be birds
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got to make our own key

 
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Only got this moment, you and me, guilty of nothing, but geography

Fmaj7 Gadd4

Come on and raise it, come on and raise this noise
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for the million people who got not one voice
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come on it’s not over if you mean it say loud
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come on all for Love, out from the underground

 
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Away with me, we don’t need words
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Close your eyes and see, and we’ll be birds
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Flying free, holding on in the mystery

 
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earless, fearless, free – you said ‘we’ll go
 
Fmaj7  
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Gadd4
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh through this together’
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Fmaj7  
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Gadd4
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

 
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When you fly won’t you, won’t you take me too?
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Fmaj7 
 
 
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Fmaj7 
 
-stop-
in this world so cruel, I think you’re so cool

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