Rooks chords by Shearwater
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Intro 1
(E minor)
(D major) (E minor)
(D major) (C major) (D major)
(B major)
Verse 1
When the rook (E minor)
s were laid in the piles
By the sides of the road
Crash (D major) ing into the aerials
Tangled in the laundry lines
(E minor)
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Verse 2
And (D major) gathered in a field
They were burned in
a feathering pyr (G major) (D major) e (G major)
(C major) With their cold black (D major) (B major) eyes
Verse 3
When the swal (E minor) lows fell from
the eaves
And the gulls from the spires
The starling (D major) s, in millions
Would feed on the ground
where they lie
(E minor)
Verse 4
The am (D major) bulance men said
There's nowhere to flee for your life (G major) (C major)
So we stay (D major) (B major) inside
And we'll sleep (A minor) until the world
(A major) of man (B major) is paralyzed
(E minor)
Interlude 1
(G major)
(D major) (A minor) (E minor) (G major)
(D major) (C major)
(B major)
Verse 5
Oh, the fal (E minor)
coner awakes to the sound of the bells
(G major) Overhead and southbound (A minor)
They are leaving his life (B major)
And each (E minor) empty cage just rings in
his heart like (G major) a bell
Verse 6
(G major)
Underneath these cold (A minor) stars
In this trembling light, (B major) and he cries
(C major) Amen, let their kingdom come tonight (B major)
Outro 1
Let this dream be realized
(B major) (E major) (E minor)
Rooks
Shearwater
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