Birds Of Flims chords by 
Sun Kil Moon 
N/A•
Key: B minor•
Intro 1
Am
Em
Am
Em
C
Am
Verse 1
Damn if I didn't
Em
just go walking and find some horses
C
Am
A man- made lake and some trees
Came back to my room all
covered in sweat
Em
Am
Here at the Swiss Waldhaus Hotel
Verse 2
Am
Em
Filled out an application for a work visa
Am
For Japan and Australia
It's been a few weeks
since I've left home
Em
And I feel out of place
Am
And out of my element
Verse 3
Am
I work from 7 at night
Em
Until 5 AM when the
Am
AD says "Wrap"
Em
And a runner named Fabio flashlights me back
Am
to my hotel before the sun comes up
Em
Then I get in my bed and talk with my girl
Am
on the phone to the birds chirping
How the hell did I end up playing
Em
myself in an Italian film
Am
Set in a ski town in Switzerland?
Interlude 1
G
Dm
Am
Em
Dm
C
G
Em
Am
G
Em
Am
Verse 4
Bb
Ebm
Damn if I didn't just go walk in the yard,
Bb
Bbm
Ebm
so alone on [?]
Bbm
I felt like Jimmy Page walking the moun
Ebm
tains out behind Aleister Crowley's house
Bbm
Ebm
It was too dark, and it got so cold
Gb
That I turned back around
Ebm
Bbm
Came back to my room,
Gb
Ebm
read Graham Nash's Wild Tales
Am
Ebm
Dm
Til I fell asleep to the sound
G
Dm
Interlude 2
Am
G
Dm
Verse 5
C
G
The sound of the birds
C
Am
The birds of Flims
C
G
Yeah I've asked around
But nobody knows the names
Em
of 'em
Am
Verse 6
Dsus4
G
Of the birds
Em
Am
The birds of Flims
Dsus4
G
Yeah I've asked around
But nobody knows the names
Em
of 'em
Am
Verse 7
Am
Damn if I didn't just go walking
down the road
Em
Am
When a girl named Veronica stopped me
She said she was from Milan and
Em
that she recognized me from the film
Am
And that today was her birthday
Verse 8
We talked a little bit
But there was a barrier
Em
And she went one way
Am
and I went the oth er
And I walked along the dandelions
Em
and down to market
Am
Where I bought her some flowers
Verse 9
Am
On the way back to my hotel
Em
I left them in the lobby of her s,
with a note
"Veronica,
Am
happy birthday -Mark"
And when I saw her again on the set
She said "Grazie",
Em
and I could tell the gesture
Am
Had touched her heart
Verse 10
Damn if I didn't go to dinner
last night with Paul
Em
But his throat was sore
Am
And I could see that he
was feeling ill
He spends more time on the set than I do
And it's cold out there
Em
And the last two days,
C
Am
he was playing Hitler
Verse 11
C
I could see he was grappling with that
Am
Em
And I felt bad,
and I gave him some words of support
Am
And we talked about John Hughes movies,
home ownership
Em
And the cost of living in San
Francisco and New York
Am
And
Verse 12
damn if I didn't go out later with a set
Em
dresser or something like that
Am
Name said "Brianna"
We talked for four hours at a bar
down the street
And the music was terrible
Em
Am
But yeah, I liked her, kinda
Verse 13
She's been with someone for
C
four or five years
Am
Em
And I kinda figured that anyhow,
Am
and told her "Well, so have I"
And that made life easier for both of us
And I walked her drunk
Em
ass back to her room
And like a gentleman,
Am
I didn't try
Interlude 3
G
Dm
Am
Dm
Verse 14
C
G
And I went to my room
I looked down at the waterfront
Em
Am
G
From my balcony I felt
Em
Am
The surrealness of my surroundings
Verse 15
G
I got in my bed
Looked up at the baby
Em
Am
blue ceilings above
Dsus4
G
And thought of my home
And my girl
Em
And I ached for her love
Interlude 4
Am
D
G
Dm
Em
Dm
Bb
Dm
Am
Bb
Dm
C
Am
Dm
Bb
Dsus4
Am
C
Em
C
Am
C
Em
C
Am
Verse 16
Damn when it all ended
G
Em
If I didn't have them fly me out
Am
To New Orleans
Where I saw kitty cats sleeping
on porches
Dsus4
G
And drank real iced tea for the first
C
Am
time in six to eight weeks
Verse 17
Am
It was nice not having to walk down
C
that awkward path again
G
Am
And not to have to yell [?]
About eating pasta pomodoro for the
38th time in a month
Dsus4
Am
If its price [?] was 60 Swiss
Verse 18
fuckin' francs
Am
Damn if I didn't go walking
G
the next afternoon
C
Down Oretha Castle
Am
I ate a catfish lunch at Cafe
Reconcile
Dsus4
With a side of ma caroni and cheese
C
Em
Am
And cornbread and collard greens
Verse 19
C
Am
G
Saw it advertised on channel 99
Em
Am
The public access channel
And I walked across the street
to a gym
And I watched two fighters spar
Dsus4
And I talked to them
C
during their break
Em
Am
Bb
While they sipped on their Snapple
Verse 20
Bbm
Ebm
And I thought, what is life if not a fight?
Ab
Bbm
Ebm
Or a test of will and grace
Bb
Bbm
Some would match it by throw
Bb
ing bombs like Mike Tyson
Ab
But some, like Pernell, are
Bbm
Ebm
Bb
slippery [?]
Verse 21
Bb
Some are fearless like Gatti
Ab
But like Henry Akinwande
Db
Ebm
Some of them buckle and stall
Bb
When the go ing gets tough,
Bbm
with much due respect
Ab
Some of them break down and cry
Bbm
Ebm
Like Oliver "The Atomic
Bb
Bomb" McCall
Verse 22
Life's a chess game for all of us
Ab
Hit, don't be hit, jab and hook and
Db
feint and bob and weave
Ebm
Bb
When the fighters got back in the ring
Bbm
Bb
I thought of my own fight in life
Ab
Ebm
And it was time to be leaving
Verse 23
Bb
Bbm
And damn if I didn't go to the airport
Ab
Bbm
And fly up to Clev eland, Ohio
Ebm
Bb
Bbm
I had dinner at Sylvester's in North Canton
with my girlfriend and her friends
Ab
And for the first time
in a while
Ebm
Bb
I was surrounded by genuine smiles (
beautiful smiles)
Verse 24
Bbm
There at the table with all of them,
I felt content
Ab
Db
Ebm
And grounded and rooted again
Bb
And was dropped off to face
the hardships
Bbm
Of a single mom who happens to be one
Ab
Db
Ebm
of my closest and dearest friends
Verse 25
Bb
Bbm
Fell asleep in her spare room
to the sound of crop dusters
Ab
Db
Ebm
And cars on the highway
Bb
Bbm
Back to my root s where
unconditional love
Bb
Rules over everything
Ab
And I could no longer hear the birds of Flims
Ebm
Outro 1
Bbm
Gb
Cb
Ebm
Gb
Ebm
Cb
Gb
Ebm
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