The Forest chords by
David Byrne
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Key: G major
Intro 1
Cm
Cm

F
F

Cm
Cm

F
F

Cm
Cm

F
F

Bb
Bb

F
F

Cm
Cm

F
F

Verse 1
Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

The forest awakes
F
F

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

F
F

A desert at dawn
Cm
Cm

A mountain at night
And the rhythm moves on
F
F

The
Verse 2
Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

people awake
F
F

They're marching along
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

The streets are alive
F
F

With a terrible song
Cm
Cm

F
F

Forwards and backwards in every
Verse 3
Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

F
F

direction
Cm
Cm

F
F

Bb
Bb

F
F

Cm
Cm

The abs' perpetual motion
F
F

Cm
Cm

The shifting of light on
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

F
F

the banks of the river
Cm
Cm

F
F

I'm free, but I'm keeping my clothes on
Verse 4
F
F

Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

F
F

I'm marching along
The street where you live
Cm
Cm

I'm calling your name,
F
F

The song is a gift
The song is a road
Cm
Cm

F
F

A road is a face
Cm
Cm

F
F

A face is a time
And a time is a place
Cm
Cm

A place of relief and
F
F

a time of confusion
The heart is a simple equation
With beautiful words and
with beautiful people
Bb
Bb

The heart is a face, is a mountain
F
F

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Interlude 1
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

F
F

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

F
F

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

Verse 5
Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

A fruit that falls before it's grown
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

I heard a sound and a bird has flown
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

It breaks to pieces above the forest
Bb
Bb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

A million particles born today
F
F

Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Out beyond the blue horizon
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

G
G

Air cannot escape
C
C

D
D

C
C

Underneath the weeping willow
Am
Am

D
D

Am
Am

D
D

I can see your face
Gb
Gb

Ab
Ab

F#
F#

Free- form, climbing all over me
Bbm
Bbm

Db
Db

F#
F#

Creatures great and small
Ab
Ab

F#
F#

Doctors pulling them out of you
Ab
Ab

F#
F#

D
D

Hideous, virtuous, both of us
G
G

Come
Verse 6
D
D

C
C

D
D

in my kitchen
when it rains outside
Bm
Bm

G
G

D
D

Sweet inspiration sneaks up from
Interlude 2
behind
D
D

G
G

D
D

Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

Gaug
Gaug

G
G

Verse 7
G
G

D
D

Cm
Cm

Forest is true
F
F

Cm
Cm

F
F

I know for a fact
Bb
Bb

F
F

Bb
Bb

The bigger the front
Cm
Cm

F
F

Cm
Cm

Then the bigger the back
F
F

My
Verse 8
Cm
Cm

heart beating still
F
F

Through the perilous night
The bombs burst in air
My hair is alright
F
F

The shifting of light on
the trees and the houses
Cm
Cm

I drown in an ocean of perfume
F
F

F
F

Bb
Bb

The strangeness of words
How the meaning keeps changing
Cm
Cm

But somehow the beauty will find you
Outro 1
Cm
Cm

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