Song: Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Artist: Iron & Wine
Capo: III
Measure: 3/4
Intro C - Am - F - G (this repeats through all the song)
C
I was a quick wet boy
Am
diving too deep for coins
F
All of your street light eyes
G
wide on my plastic toys
C
Then when the cops closed the fair,
Am
I cut my long baby hair
F
Stole me a dog-eared map
G
and called for you everywhere
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm
poisoned rats
curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine
photos, those fishing lures
Thrown in the cold and clean,
blood of Christ mountain stream
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down
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