Small Swift Birds chords by
Cowboy Junkies

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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I've been

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told that it's just the way life goes.

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Once the wildest river is now

a trickle to the sea.

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The peak we risk our lives to scale be

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comes dirt beneath our feet.

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The wisdom of a life time always

disappears untapped.

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Paradise once given will

always be taken back.

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And the love you hang your life upon

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will start to slowly crack.

Interlude 1

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Verse 2

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I have seen people suffocate the dream.

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Forgetting to turn that one last time while

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she watches through the door.

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Focusing on the garbage

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that she use to ignore.

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Thinking she looks so beautiful

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but not yelling it out loud.

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He should have thought to kiss

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her before he headed out.

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Just forgetting how fucking lucky you are

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to have found her in such a crowd.

Verse 3

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But we've seen a cloud of starlings

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rising on a crisp autumn day.

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We were handed the weight of a child

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sleeping and bore her away.

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We've tasted the tears that fall when

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saying goodbye forever.

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And we've seen the silver from a waxing moon

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wash upon the shore.

Interlude 2

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Verse 4

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I have heard about the lives

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of small swift birds.

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They dazzle with their colour and

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their deftness through the air.

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Just a simple glimpse will keep

you simply standing there.

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Legendary journeys made

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on fragile hollow wings.

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The night skies rich with whistling

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each and every spring.

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And then there's the day we look for them

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and can't find them anywhere.

Verse 5

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I've been told that it's

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just the way life goes.

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