Little Birds

Neutral Milk Hotel

 Am
 Little birds born without a mother or a father

I can watch their bodies forming in the running water
 G
 Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
 Em
 A hundred altogether within me now
 Am
 Little bird, little bird come into my body

 Am
 Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking

Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me
 G
 Open up my mouth but all you'll ever hear is singing
 Em
 Put you hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling
 Am
 I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

 Am
 Daddy come to touch me but he seen his hands a shaking

Look into my eyes and he could see their bodies breaking
 G
 Push me to the floor and in his hands I started beating
 Em
 I don't want to hear it anymore, he kept repeating
 Am
 Do you really want the burning hell that we believe in?

 Am
 Did you know the burning hell it took your baby brother?

Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
 G
 Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
 Em
And deep in sin they held each other
 Am
 So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in

Knowing God in heaven would have, never could forgive him
 GEm
So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his brains in         

 Am
 Little boy born without a father or a mother
 Am
 Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
 G
 And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter la la la la la
 Am
 Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him

From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him

Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
 G
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him

 AmG
 And here beneath the water I can see
 EmAm
How the lights distort so strange
 GEm
And I think this is how I would like to leave my body
 Am
And start again


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