Heron's Head chords by Sara Jaffe

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Verse 1
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I   was here late at night with
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a pint and a friend
Looking for something to hold
She offered her hand up or I took it first
The hour and the sea made us bold
We were dodgy young sailors,
unsure of our
steps
We were two lonely girls in the fog
We sucked back the salt and
it caught on our breath
Lungs laced with whiskey and smog
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And the moon was the color of our history
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And the sky was the color of ghosts
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The factory lights glimmer, a once dim growing dimmer,
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to the time of the light, time growing close.
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The word is they'd wanted to build a new bridge,
or towers for pushing out smoke.
But the planting fell idle, the land it fell fallow,
birds swooped in and made it their home.
They flaunted their feathers in cover of reeds,
they foraged for fish in the bay.
To suddenly flourish to kingdoms of wings
To keep all the smokestacks away
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And  though the water's not
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murky and hot sometimes
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But the sky's an unnatural pink
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The killdeer that live here
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still ring an issue here
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With more stake power than you'd
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think
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My friend, I and I huddle
together for warmth
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Tuned our ears to the flapping of wings
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In this refuge of refuse
and avian dreams
And the city sees secrets they sing, they
sing
And the city sees secrets they sing
you